Discovery of Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria in Corals Export

@article{citeulike:4492961, abstract = {Colonies of the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa exhibit a solar-stimulated orange-red fluorescence that is spectrally similar to a variety of fluorescent proteins expressed by corals. The source of this fluorescence is phycoerythrin in unicellular, nonheterocystis, symbiotic cyanobacteria within the host cells of the coral. The cyanobacteria coexist with the symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae) of the coral and express the nitrogen-fixing enzyme nitrogenase. The presence of this prokaryotic symbiont in a nitrogen-limited zooxanthellate coral suggests that nitrogen fixation may be an important source of this limiting element for the symbiotic association. 10.1126/science.1099128}, author = {Lesser, Michael P. and Mazel, Charles H. and Gorbunov, Maxim Y. and Falkowski, Paul G.}, citeulike-article-id = {4492961}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1099128}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/305/5686/997}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15310901}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15310901}, day = {13}, doi = {10.1126/science.1099128}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {coral, cyanobacteria, nitrogen\_fix}, month = {August}, number = {5686}, pages = {997--1000}, posted-at = {2009-05-08 13:04:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Discovery of Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria in Corals}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1099128}, volume = {305}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4492961 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4492961 N2 - Colonies of the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa exhibit a solar-stimulated orange-red fluorescence that is spectrally similar to a variety of fluorescent proteins expressed by corals. The source of this fluorescence is phycoerythrin in unicellular, nonheterocystis, symbiotic cyanobacteria within the host cells of the coral. The cyanobacteria coexist with the symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae) of the coral and express the nitrogen-fixing enzyme nitrogenase. The presence of this prokaryotic symbiont in a nitrogen-limited zooxanthellate coral suggests that nitrogen fixation may be an important source of this limiting element for the symbiotic association. 10.1126/science.1099128 IS - 5686 JF - Science EP - 1000 TI - Discovery of Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria in Corals VL - 305 SP - 997 KW - coral KW - cyanobacteria KW - nitrogen_fix AU - Lesser, Michael AU - Mazel, Charles AU - Gorbunov, Maxim AU - Falkowski, Paul PY - 2004/08/13/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1099128 ER -