Biology:Acaryochloris marina
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteria |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| Order: | Synechococcales |
| Family: | Acaryochloridaceae Komárek et al. 2014[2] |
| Genus: | Acaryochloris Miyashita & Chihara 2003[1] |
| Species: | A. marina
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| Binomial name | |
| Acaryochloris marina Miyashita & Chihara, 2003[1]
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Acaryochloris marina is a symbiotic species of the phylum Cyanobacteria that produces chlorophyll d, allowing it to use far-red light, at 770 nm wavelength.[3]
Description
It was first discovered in 1993 from coastal isolates of coral in the Republic of Palau in the west Pacific Ocean and announced in 1996.[4] Despite the claim in the 1996 Nature paper that its formal description was to be published shortly thereafter,[4] a tentative partial description was presented in 2003 due to phylogenetic issues (deep branching cyanobacterium).[1]
Genome
Its genome was sequenced in 2008, revealing a large bacterial genome of 8.3 Mb with nine plasmids.[5]
Etymology
The name Acaryochloris is a combination of the Greek prefix a (ἄν)[6] meaning "without", caryo (κάρυον)[7] meaning "nut" (here intended as "nucleus") and chloros (χλωρός)[8] meaning green;[9] therefore it is Neo-Latin Acaryochloris meaning "without nucleus green".[1] The specific epithet marina is Latin meaning "marine".[1]
Classification
Due to historical reason, the classification of the Cyanobacteria is problematic and many are not validly published, meaning they have not yet been placed into the classification framework.[10] One of these not officially recognised species is Acaryochloris marina, which technically should be written as "Acaryochloris marina" in official writings, but in effect this is rarely done (cf.[5][11])
Exoplanet habitability
Scientists including NASA's Nancy Kiang have proposed that the existence of Acaryochloris marina suggests that organisms that use chlorophyll d, rather than chlorophyll a, may be able to perform oxygenic photosynthesis on exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars (which emit much less light than the Sun).[12][13] Because about 70% of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are red dwarfs,[14] the existence of A. marina implies that oxygenic photosynthesis may be occurring on far more exoplanets than astrobiologists initially thought possible.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Miyashita, H.; Ikemoto, H.; Kurano, N.; Miyachi, S.; Chihara, M. (2003). "Acaryochloris Marina Gen. Et Sp. Nov. (Cyanobacteria), an Oxygenic Photosynthetic Prokaryote Containing Chl D As a Major Pigment1". Journal of Phycology 39 (6): 1247–1253. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.2003.03-158.x.
- ↑ "Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach". Preslia 86: 295–335. 2014. http://www.preslia.cz/P144Komarek.pdf.
- ↑ "A New Kind of Photosynthesis Has Been Discovered, Pushing the Limits on Life". https://www.sciencealert.com/new-chlorophyll-role-photosynthesis-converts-near-infrared-cyanobacteria.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 H. Miyashita; H. Ikemoto; N. Kurano; K. Adachi; M. Chihara; S. Miyachi (1996). "Chlorophyll d as a major pigment". Nature 383 (6599): 402. doi:10.1038/383402a0. Bibcode: 1996Natur.383..402M.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Swingley, W. D.; Chen, M.; Cheung, P. C.; Conrad, A. L.; Dejesa, L. C.; Hao, J.; Honchak, B. M.; Karbach, L. E. et al. (2008). "Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (6): 2005–2010. doi:10.1073/pnas.0709772105. PMID 18252824. Bibcode: 2008PNAS..105.2005S.
- ↑ ἄν. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ↑ κάρυον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ↑ χλωρός. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ↑ Gender of suffices entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol (Microbiology Society) 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. https://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. Retrieved 2019-02-23.]
- ↑ Classification of Cyanobacteria entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol (Microbiology Society) 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. https://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. Retrieved 2019-02-23.]
- ↑ Kühl, M.; Chen, M.; Ralph, P. J.; Schreiber, U.; Larkum, A. W. D. (2005). "Ecology: A niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll d". Nature 433 (7028): 820. doi:10.1038/433820a. PMID 15729331. Bibcode: 2005Natur.433..820K.
- ↑ Gronstal, Aaron (February 2012). "Far-Out Photosynthesis". News & Features (NASA). http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/features/201202_mielke/.
- ↑ Mielke, S.P.; N.Y. Kiang; R.E. Blankenship; M.R. Gunner; D. Mauzerall (2011). "Efficiency of photosynthesis in a Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium is comparable to or higher than that in Chl a-utilizing oxygenic species". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1807 (9): 1231–1236. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.06.007. PMID 21708123.
- ↑ "Colorful Dwarfs". The University of Texas McDonald Observatory. http://stardate.org/astro-guide/btss/stars/colorful_dwarfs.
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