Sentences with phrase «marine cyanobacteria»

The study — led by IU biologist David M. Kehoe and conducted by Joseph E. Sanfilippo, IU Ph.D. student, and Animesh Shukla, former IU Ph.D. student, in collaboration with researchers in the United States and France — is the first to show how a process that improves light capture in marine cyanobacteria is regulated.

Elevated CO2 enhances nitrogen fixation and growth in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium.

Not exact matches

One possibility could be related to dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria found upstream in the catchment, which might be releasing toxins similar to those that cause red tides in marine environments, says Peter Ashton, a water resources specialist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa and the University of Pretoria.

The question of how Trichodesmium cyanobacteria are reacting to the changing ocean makes a big difference in predicting how other marine life, from whales to mere specks of floating plankton, will react, too.

He is specialized in the ecology and diversity of cyanobacteria, other marine bacteria and microalgae, and known for his work on microbial mats and nitrogen fixation

The researchers have shown that Synechococcus cyanobacteria — which use light to capture carbon dioxide from the air and produce energy for the marine food chain — contain specific genes which alters their pigmentation depending on the type of light in which they float.

The cyanobacteria tested in the laboratory tank are believed to be responsible for about half of all marine nitrogen fixation.