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Coral reef cyanobacteria
[edit]Coral reef ecosystems host many organisms. One important group of coral reef organisms are cyanobacteria. Some cyanobacteria proliferate on coral reefs after eutrophication events, [1] however other species of cyanobacteria are integral to coral reef ecosystems [2]
Cyanobacteria are prokaryotes
[edit]Historically cyanobacteria were labelled "blue-green algae", however Stanier et al. (1978)[3] described cyanobacteria as typical prokaryotes so proposed that cyanobacteria should not be classified among eukaryotic algae. Cyanobacteria are taxonomically now considered a phylum under the kingdom Bacteria [4] So what exactly is a cyanobacterium? A redefinition of cyanobacteria by Garcia-Pichel et al. (2020) is as follows:
Cyanobacteria definition:
"Organisms in the domain bacteria able to carry out oxygenic photosynthesis with water as an electron donor and to reduce carbon dioxide as a source of carbon, or those secondarily evolved from such organisms."[5]
Roles of cyanobacteria on coral reefs
[edit]Cyanobacteria
References
[edit]- ^ de Bakker, D.M., van Duyl, F.C., Bak, R.P.M. et al. 40 Years of benthic community change on the Caribbean reefs of Curaçao and Bonaire: the rise of slimy cyanobacterial mats. Coral Reefs 36, 355–367 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-016-1534-9
- ^ Charpy, Loic & Casareto, Beatriz & Langlade, Marie & Yoshimi, Suzuki. (2012). Cyanobacteria in Coral Reef Ecosystems: A Review. J Mar Biol. 2012.
- ^ Stanier, R. Y., Sistrom, W. R., Hansen, T. A., Whitton, B. A., Castenholz, R. W., Pfennig, N., et al. (1978) Proposal to place the nomenclature of the Cyanobacteria (Blue-Green Algae) under the rules of the international code of nomenclature of bacteria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 28, 335–336.
- ^ Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, University of Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 March 2024.
- ^ Garcia‐Pichel, Ferran & Zehr, Jonathan & Bhattacharya, Debashish & Pakrasi, Himadri. (2019). What's in a name? The case of cyanobacteria. Journal of Phycology. 56. 10.1111/jpy.12934.