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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2001, p. 991-994, Vol. 67, No. 2
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.2.991-994.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Chromatic Adaptation in Marine Synechococcus Strains

Brian Palenik*

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0202

Received 18 September 2000/Accepted 1 December 2000

Characterization of two genetically distinct groups of marine Synechococcus sp. strains shows that one, but not the other, increases its phycourobilin/phycoerythrobilin chromophore ratio when growing in blue light. This ability of at least some marine Synechococcus strains to chromatically adapt may help explain their greater abundance in particular ocean environments than cyanobacteria of the genus Prochlorococcus.

* Mailing address: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0202. Phone: (858) 534-7505. Fax: (858) 534-7313. E-mail: bpalenik{at}ucsd.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2001, p. 991-994, Vol. 67, No. 2
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.2.991-994.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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