During the 62nd Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, held Feb. 17 - 21, in San Francisco, California, Andy LiWang at the University of California, Merced will present his lab's work studying the circadian clock of blue - green
colored cyanobacteria.
Not exact matches
, and
cyanobacteria that use carotenoids (like the pigments that give carrots their
color) to protect themselves from the bright sun.
A species of
cyanobacteria has the chameleon - like power to match different
colored light across the world's seas, research shows.
However, the Earth harbors a greater diversity of photosynthetic organisms than vascular plants, and includes algae,
cyanobacteria, and anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, all of which occur in a wide array of
colors, due to adaptation and acclimation to different light and chemical environments.