Cyanobacteria

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A closely-related clade of globally distributed bloom-forming cyanobacteria within the Nostocales. 
  • Assessing population structure and host specialization in lichenized cyanobacteria. 
  • Biological nitrogen fixation by alternative nitrogenases in boreal cyanolichens: importance of molybdenum availability and implications for current biological nitrogen fixation estimates. 
  • Biosynthetically intriguing chlorinated lipophilic metabolites from geographically distant tropical marine cyanobacteria. 
  • Carbon sequestration in Synechococcus Sp.: from molecular machines to hierarchical modeling. 
  • CyanoPATH: a knowledgebase of genome-scale functional repertoire for toxic cyanobacterial blooms. 
  • Cyanobacterial Blooms Are Not a Result of Positive Selection by Freshwater Eutrophication. 
  • Cyanobacterial ribosomal RNA genes with multiple, endonuclease-encoding group I introns 
  • Dependence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on hydrogen peroxide scavenging microbes for growth at the ocean's surface. 
  • Differential gene expression associated with fungal trophic shifts along the senescence gradient of the moss Dicranum scoparium. 
  • Exploring syntenic conservation across genomes for phylogenetic studies of organisms subjected to horizontal gene transfers: A case study with Cyanobacteria and cyanolichens. 
  • Expression of nifH genes in natural microbial assemblages in Lake George, New York, detected by reverse transcriptase PCR. 
  • Expression of photosynthesis genes in relation to nitrogen fixation in the diazotrophic filamentous nonheterocystous cyanobacterium Trichodesmium sp. IMS 101. 
  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses 
  • Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects oceanic niche differentiation. 
  • Growth suppression and apoptosis-like cell death in Microcystis aeruginosa by H₂ O₂ : A new insight into extracellular and intracellular damage pathways. 
  • Homologs of the vancomycin resistance D-Ala-D-Ala dipeptidase VanX in Streptomyces toyocaensis, Escherichia coli and Synechocystis: attributes of catalytic efficiency, stereoselectivity and regulation with implications for function. 
  • Investigating deep phylogenetic relationships among cyanobacteria and plastids by small subunit rRNA sequence analysis. 
  • Largazole: from discovery to broad-spectrum therapy. 
  • Life history responses of Daphnia similoides simultaneously exposed to microcystin-LR and ammonia and their postexposure recovery. 
  • Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature. 
  • New insights into the distributions of nitrogen fixation and diazotrophs revealed by high-resolution sensing and sampling methods. 
  • New nitrogen-fixing microorganisms detected in oligotrophic oceans by amplification of Nitrogenase (nifH) genes. 
  • Preliminary crystallographic investigations of two phycobiliproteins. 
  • Revisiting the distribution of oceanic N₂ fixation and estimating diazotrophic contribution to marine production. 
  • Short-term N2 fixation kinetics in a moss-associated cyanobacteria 
  • Structures of maintenance of carboxysome distribution Walker-box McdA and McdB adaptor homologs. 
  • The Trait Repertoire Enabling Cyanobacteria to Bloom Assessed through Comparative Genomic Complexity and Metatranscriptomics. 
  • The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. 
  • Three-dimensional structures of C-phycocyanin and B-phycoerythrin at 5-A resolution. 
  • Transfer of photosynthesis genes to and from Prochlorococcus viruses.