First recorded in 1975–80; cyano- 1 + bacteria
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He found that Anabaena and some related cyanobacteria contain a system known as ParMR encoded within their chromosomes.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
Even today, cyanobacteria remain essential to life on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
The findings suggest that soon after cyanobacteria began producing oxygen, other organisms evolved the machinery to consume it.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
The beauty of the sky contrasts sharply with the water, sometimes blue, but often a murky green from cyanobacteria or stained black.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
"Understanding stress-responsive biosynthesis in extremophilic cyanobacteria may accelerate industrial biotechnology for natural pigment and antioxidant production," says Prof. Kageyama when describing the motivation behind the work.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic bacteria that produce oxygen and are known for their ability to survive in harsh environments.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
Cyanobacteria, an ancient lineage of bacteria that perform photosynthesis, have been found to regulate their genes using the same physics principle used in AM radio transmission.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
This is in contrast to earlier studies that concluded that Cyanobacteria acquired these genes from Alphaproteobacteria at a late stage in their evolution.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
Before that, 2-methylhopanoids were thus only produced by Cyanobacteria.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
Cyanobacteria are photosynthesizers, while Actinobacteria are a group of very common bacteria that include species important in decomposition of organic wastes.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The other is Chroococcidiopsis, a tough cyanobacterium that can survive extreme environments, including simulated Martian conditions.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 6, 2026
The two are forever on the trail of these composite symbiotic organisms, which they describe in the book as “an intensive cooperation between a fungus and an alga or a cyanobacterium, and sometimes all three.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Some 2 billion years ago, a single-celled organism in Earth’s primeval ocean engulfed a mitochondrion and a cyanobacterium — and, now able to generate energy and photosynthesize, shunted off to change the world.
From Nature ● Apr. 2, 2019
But Chisholm has found hidden complexity within Prochlorococcus, a cyanobacterium that is the smallest, most abundant photosynthesizing cell in the ocean—responsible for 5% of global photosynthesis, by some estimates.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 9, 2017
In contrast, the other algae—red, brown, golden, stramenopiles, and so on—all became photosynthetic by secondary, or even tertiary, endosymbiotic events; that is, they endosymbiosed cells that had already endosymbiosed a cyanobacterium.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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