The research focuses on the marine bacterium Synechococcus and its interaction with the bacteriophage Syn9. Synechococcus, a cyanobacterium, is a primary producer that generates food from ...

Limnology and Oceanography Vol. 63, No. S1, March 2018 Clade and strain specific contributions ... The marine picocyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus dominate primary production in ...

Synechococcus elongatus is known for growing fast and is capable of withstanding a wide range of conditions. Chonkus is like a superpowered version of the microbe. When the team grew it in the lab ...

One of the most abundant types of phytoplankton is marine picocyanobacteria such as Synechococcus. "Synechococcus are very big players in the ocean globally," said Sheri Floge, Wake Forest ...