Krupke, Andreas


Publications
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Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled Eukaryotic Alga

Citation
Thompson et al. (2012). Science 337 (6101)
Names
“Atelocyanobacterium thalassae”
Abstract
Fixing on a Marine Partnership Nitrogen fixation by microorganisms determines the productivity of the biosphere. Although plants photosynthesize by virtue of the ancient incorporation of cyanobacteria to form chloroplasts, no equivalent endosymbiotic event has occurred for nitrogen fixation. Nevertheless, in terrestrial environments, nitrogen-fixing symbioses between bacteria and plants, for example, are common. Thompson et al.