| T number | T01159 |
| Org_code | cyu |
| Name | Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa (Cyanobacterium UCYN-A) |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 1453429 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Cyanobacteriota; Cyanophyceae; Oscillatoriophycideae; Chroococcales; Aphanothecaceae; Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium; Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000025125.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 30917 |
| Comment | Incapable of oxygenic photosynthesis, which also explains why they can fix N2 during daylight.
Sorting natural populations of UCYN-A cells from numerous North Pacific and South Pacific seawater samples.
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| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | GB: CP001842 |
| Length | 1443806 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 1443806
Number of protein genes: 1200
Number of RNA genes: 42
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| Created | 2010 |
| Reference | PMID: 19008448 |
| Authors | Zehr JP, Bench SR, Carter BJ, Hewson I, Niazi F, Shi T, Tripp HJ, Affourtit JP |
| Title | Globally distributed uncultivated oceanic N2-fixing cyanobacteria lack oxygenic photosystem II. |
| Journal | Science 322:1110-2 (2008)
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165340 |
Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa