Nature Communications (Mar 2016)
Cyanobacterial symbionts diverged in the late Cretaceous towards lineage-specific nitrogen fixation factories in single-celled phytoplankton
- Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo,
- Ana M. Cabello,
- Guillem Salazar,
- Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo,
- Gipsi Lima-Mendez,
- Pascal Hingamp,
- Adriana Alberti,
- Shinichi Sunagawa,
- Peer Bork,
- Colomban de Vargas,
- Jeroen Raes,
- Chris Bowler,
- Patrick Wincker,
- Jonathan P. Zehr,
- Josep M. Gasol,
- Ramon Massana,
- Silvia G. Acinas
Affiliations
- Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo
- Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC
- Ana M. Cabello
- Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC
- Guillem Salazar
- Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC
- Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo
- School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
- Gipsi Lima-Mendez
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute KU Leuven
- Pascal Hingamp
- Aix Marseille Université CNRS IGS UMR 7256
- Adriana Alberti
- CEA-Institut de Génomique, Genoscope, Centre National de Séquençage
- Shinichi Sunagawa
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit
- Peer Bork
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit
- Colomban de Vargas
- CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff
- Jeroen Raes
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute KU Leuven
- Chris Bowler
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), CNRS UMR 8197
- Patrick Wincker
- CEA-Institut de Génomique, Genoscope, Centre National de Séquençage
- Jonathan P. Zehr
- Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California
- Josep M. Gasol
- Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC
- Ramon Massana
- Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC
- Silvia G. Acinas
- Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11071
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Nitrogen fixation in oceans is facilitated by associations between marine phytoplankton and cyanobacteria such as UCYN-A. Here, Cornejo-Castillo et al. show that UCYN-A diversified in the late Cretaceous under strong purifying selection to become lineage-specific symbiont partners with different prymnesiophytes.
