The diversity of cyanobacterial metabolism: genome analysis of multiple phototrophic microorganisms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cyanobacteria are among the most abundant organisms on Earth and represent one of the oldest and most widespread clades known in modern phylogenetics. As the only known prokaryotes capable of oxygenic photosynthesis, cyanobacteria are considered to be a promising resource for renewable fuels and natural products. Our efforts to harness the sun's energy using cyanobacteria would greatly benefit from an increased understanding of the genomic diversity across multiple cyanobacterial strains. In this respect, the advent of novel sequencing techniques and the availability of several cyanobacterial genomes offers new opportunities for understanding microbial diversity and metabolic organization and evolution in diverse environments.

Results

Here, we report a whole genom

SUBMITTER: Beck C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3369817 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature