Endolithic chlorophyll d-containing phototrophs

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 5; no. 6; pp. 1072 - 1076
• Main Authors: Behrendt, Lars, Larkum, Anthony WD, Norman, Anders, Qvortrup, Klaus, Chen, Min, Ralph, Peter, Sørensen, Søren J, Trampe, Erik, Kühl, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2011; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/2446/837; 631/326/2565/855; Algae; Animals; Anthozoa - microbiology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Chlorophyll; Chlorophyll - analysis; Coral Reefs; Cyanobacteria; Cyanobacteria - genetics; Cyanobacteria - isolation & purification; Cyanobacteria - metabolism; Cyanobacteria - ultrastructure; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Ecology; Ecosystem; Evolutionary Biology; Fluorescence; Habitats; Life Sciences; Light; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Photosynthesis; Rhodophyta - chemistry; Rhodophyta - metabolism; Short Communication; chlorophyll; endolithic; cyanobacteria; bioimaging

Cyanobacteria in the genus Acaryochloris are the only known oxyphototrophs that have exchanged chlorophyll a (Chl a ) with Chl d as their primary photopigment, facilitating oxygenic photosynthesis with near infrared (NIR) light. Yet their ecology and natural habitats are largely unknown. We used hyp...