Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects oceanic niche differentiation

By Gabrielle Rocap, F. Larimer, J. Lamerdin, S. Malfatti, P. Chain, Nathan A. Ahlgren, A. Arellano, Maureen L. Coleman, Loren J. Hauser, W. Hess and 14 more. Nature, 2003

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Singlet oxygen and photo‐oxidative stress management in plants and algae (2005, background): “…resources expand to encompass ecologically relevant photosynthetic organisms such as poplar (Brunner, Busov & Strauss 2004; Tuskan, DiFazio & Teichmann 2004), Prochlorococcus marinus (Dufresne et al. 2003, Rocap et al. 2003), and diatoms such as Thalassiosira pseudonana (Armbrust et al. 2004).”
Genetic diversity and evolution in eukaryotic phytoplankton: revelations from population genetic studies (2017, background): “…genomic adaptations associated with at least some ecotypes of cyanobacteria have been documented, suggesting some role of natural selection and adaptive evolution in maintaining or creating the nonrandom distribution (Moore et al., 1998; Bibby et al., 2003; Rocap et al., 2003; Stuart et al., 2013).”
Sterols and other triterpenoids: source specificity and evolution of biosynthetic pathways (2005, background): “Rohmer et al. (1993) reported the existence in bacteria of an entirely different pathway, the MEP pathway that does not involve mevalonate, by which IPP is formed from pyruvate and a C3 carbohydrate (glyceraldehyde), to form 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate (DOXP), followed by intramolecular rearrangemen”
Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach (2014, background): “The relationship of this genus with the morphologically similar genera Cyanobium and Synechococcus is also questionable.”