{"id":1387,"date":"2010-02-22T05:32:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2010-02-22T05:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:32:54","slug":"genome-analysis-of-marine-microbe-reveals-a-metabolic-minimalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/genome-analysis-of-marine-microbe-reveals-a-metabolic-minimalist.html","title":{"rendered":"Genome Analysis of Marine Microbe Reveals a Metabolic Minimalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Zehr, a professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the microbe as an atypical member of the cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic bacteria formerly known as blue-green algae. Still lacking a formal taxonomic classification, it is known only as UCYN-A. First detected in the open ocean near Hawaii in 1998, it is now known to be periodically abundant in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Zehr, the marine microbiologist who discovered the microbe, said it has stubbornly resisted efforts to grow it in the laboratory. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped his team from determining the complete DNA sequence of its genome. Genome analysis enabled the researchers to reconstruct the organism&#8217;s unusual metabolic lifestyle. They published their findings in <em>Nature<\/em> in a paper available online February 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100221143204.htm\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Zehr, a professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the microbe as an atypical member of the cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic bacteria formerly known as blue-green algae. Still lacking a formal taxonomic classification, it is known only as UCYN-A. First detected in the open ocean near Hawaii in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-strains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}