The Library
Rapid diversification of marine picophytoplankton with dissimilar light-harvesting structures inferred from sequences of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (Cyanobacteria)
Tools
Tools
Tools
UNSPECIFIED (1998) Rapid diversification of marine picophytoplankton with dissimilar light-harvesting structures inferred from sequences of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (Cyanobacteria). JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION, 46 (2). pp. 188-201. ISSN 0022-2844
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
Cultured isolates of the unicellular planktonic cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus belong to a single marine picophytoplankton clade. Within this clade, two deeply branching lineages of Prochlorococcus, two lineages of marine A Synechococcus and one lineage of marine B Synechococcus exhibit closely spaced divergence points with low bootstrap support. This pattern is consistent with a near-simultaneous diversification of marine lineages with divinyl chlorophyll b and phycobilisomes as photosynthetic antennae, Inferences from 16S ribosomal RNA sequences including data for 18 marine picophytoplankton clade members were congruent with results of psbB and petB and D sequence analyses focusing on five strains of Prochlorococcus and one strain of marine A Synechococcus. Third codon position and intergenic region nucleotide frequencies vary widely among members of the marine picophytoplankton group, suggesting that substitution biases differ among the lineages, Nonetheless, standard phylogenetic methods and newer algorithms insensitive to such biases did not recover different branching patterns within the group, and failed to cluster Prochlorococcus with chloroplasts or other chlorophyll b-containing prokaryotes, Prochlorococcus isolated from surface waters of stratified, oligotrophic ocean provinces predominate in a lineage exhibiting low G + C nucleotide frequencies at highly variable positions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics |
| Journal or Publication Title: | JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION |
| Publisher: | SPRINGER VERLAG |
| ISSN: | 0022-2844 |
| Date: | February 1998 |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Number of Pages: | 14 |
| Page Range: | pp. 188-201 |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/16025 |
Data sourced from Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
