Phycobilisome light-harvesting efficiency in natural populations of the marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus increases with depth

Yuval Kolodny; Yoav Avrahami; Hagit Zer; Miguel J. Frada; Yossi Paltiel; Nir Keren

doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03677-2

Communications Biology (Jul 2022)

Phycobilisome light-harvesting efficiency in natural populations of the marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus increases with depth

Yuval Kolodny,
Yoav Avrahami,
Hagit Zer,
Miguel J. Frada,
Yossi Paltiel,
Nir Keren

Affiliations

Yuval Kolodny: Applied Physics Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yoav Avrahami: The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat
Hagit Zer: Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Miguel J. Frada: The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat
Yossi Paltiel: Applied Physics Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nir Keren: Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03677-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Probing the population of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus in an oligotrophic water column habitat at increasing depths reveals that light-harvesting quantum efficiency increases with depth.

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsbio/

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