Diversity of viral photosystem-II psbA genes in the largest channel reservoir of Kazakhstan.

摘要

ABSTRACT Cyanobacteria of the genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus are an important contributors to photosynthetic productivity in the water ecosystems. The discovery of genes (psbA, psbD) that encode key photosystem II proteins (D1, D2) in the genomes of phages that infect these cyanobacteria suggests new models for the regulation, function and evolution of photosynthesis in the immense aqueous ecosystems. Potential recombination of phage and host genes requires studying diversity of these.