Search Results - "FALKOWSKI, Paul G"

Evolution and Future of Earth's Nitrogen Cycle by Canfield, Donald E, Glazer, Alexander N, Falkowski, Paul G

“…Atmospheric reactions and slow geological processes controlled Earth's earliest nitrogen cycle, and by approximately 2.7 billion years ago, a linked suite of…”
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Metal availability and the expanding network of microbial metabolisms in the Archaean eon by Moore, Eli K., Jelen, Benjamin I., Giovannelli, Donato, Raanan, Hagai, Falkowski, Paul G.

“…Microbial metabolisms depend on enzymes that contain trace metals. A synthesis of molecular and geochemical data shows that these metabolic pathways evolved…”
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Biological control of aragonite formation in stony corals by Von Euw, Stanislas, Zhang, Qihong, Manichev, Viacheslav, Murali, Nagarajan, Gross, Juliane, Feldman, Leonard C., Gustafsson, Torgny, Flach, Carol, Mendelsohn, Richard, Falkowski, Paul G.

“…Little is known about how stony corals build their calcareous skeletons. There are two prevailing hypotheses: that it is a physicochemically dominated process…”
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The Role of Microbial Electron Transfer in the Coevolution of the Biosphere and Geosphere by Jelen, Benjamin I, Giovannelli, Donato, Falkowski, Paul G

“…All life on Earth is dependent on biologically mediated electron transfer (i.e., redox) reactions that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Biological redox…”
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Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplankton by Falkowski, Paul G, Oliver, Matthew J

“…Climate strongly influences the distribution and diversity of animals and plants, but its affect on microbial communities is poorly understood. By using…”
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Energetic coupling between plastids and mitochondria drives CO2 assimilation in diatoms by Bailleul, Benjamin, Berne, Nicolas, Murik, Omer, Petroutsos, Dimitris, Prihoda, Judit, Tanaka, Atsuko, Villanova, Valeria, Bligny, Richard, Flori, Serena, Falconet, Denis, Krieger-Liszkay, Anja, Santabarbara, Stefano, Rappaport, Fabrice, Joliot, Pierre, Tirichine, Leila, Falkowski, Paul G., Cardol, Pierre, Bowler, Chris, Finazzi, Giovanni

“…Diatoms optimize their photosynthetic efficiency via extensive energetic exchanges between plastids and mitochondria. Coupled energy production in diatoms The…”
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Lhcx proteins provide photoprotection via thermal dissipation of absorbed light in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum by Buck, Jochen M., Sherman, Jonathan, Bártulos, Carolina Río, Serif, Manuel, Halder, Marc, Henkel, Jan, Falciatore, Angela, Lavaud, Johann, Gorbunov, Maxim Y., Kroth, Peter G., Falkowski, Paul G., Lepetit, Bernard

“…Diatoms possess an impressive capacity for rapidly inducible thermal dissipation of excess absorbed energy (qE), provided by the xanthophyll diatoxanthin and…”
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Proteomic analysis of skeletal organic matrix from the stony coral Stylophora pistillata by Drake, Jeana L., Mass, Tali, Haramaty, Liti, Zelzion, Ehud, Bhattacharya, Debashish, Falkowski, Paul G.

“…It has long been recognized that a suite of proteins exists in coral skeletons that is critical for the oriented precipitation of calcium carbonate crystals,…”
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The cycling and redox state of nitrogen in the Archaean ocean by Godfrey, Linda V, Falkowski, Paul G

“…Organisms that produce oxygen through photosynthesis existed during the late Archaean eon, about 2,500 million years ago, but controversial evidence suggests…”
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Small protein folds at the root of an ancient metabolic network by Raanan, Hagai, Poudel, Saroj, Pike, Douglas H., Nanda, Vikas, Falkowski, Paul G.

“…Life on Earth is driven by electron transfer reactions catalyzed by a suite of enzymes that comprise the superfamily of oxidoreductases (Enzyme Classification…”
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role of functional traits and trade-offs in structuring phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem level by Litchman, Elena, Klausmeier, Christopher A, Schofield, Oscar M, Falkowski, Paul G

“…Trait-based approaches to community structure are increasingly used in terrestrial ecology. We show that such an approach, augmented by a mechanistic analysis…”
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Remodeling of intermediate metabolism in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nitrogen stress by Levitan, Orly, Dinamarca, Jorge, Zelzion, Ehud, Lun, Desmond S., Guerra, L. Tiago, Kim, Min Kyung, Kim, Joomi, Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S., Bhattacharya, Debashish, Falkowski, Paul G.

“…Diatoms are unicellular algae that accumulate significant amounts of triacylglycerols as storage lipids when their growth is limited by nutrients. Using…”
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Genome evolution in cyanobacteria: The stable core and the variable shell by Shi, Tuo, Falkowski, Paul G

“…Cyanobacteria are the only known prokaryotes capable of oxygenic photosynthesis, the evolution of which transformed the biology and geochemistry of Earth. The…”
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Cloning and Characterization of Four Novel Coral Acid-Rich Proteins that Precipitate Carbonates In Vitro by Mass, Tali, Drake, Jeana L., Haramaty, Liti, Kim, J. Dongun, Zelzion, Ehud, Bhattacharya, Debashish, Falkowski, Paul G.

“…Biomineralization is a widely dispersed and highly regulated but poorly understood process by which organisms precipitate minerals from a wide variety of…”
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Immunolocalization of skeletal matrix proteins in tissue and mineral of the coral Stylophora pistillata by Mass, Tali, Drake, Jeana L., Peters, Esther C., Jiang, Wenge, Falkowski, Paul G.

“…The precipitation and assembly of calcium carbonate skeletons by stony corals is a precisely controlled process regulated by the secretion of an ECM. Recently,…”
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Modular origins of biological electron transfer chains by Raanan, Hagai, Pike, Douglas H., Moore, Eli K., Falkowski, Paul G., Nanda, Vikas

“…Oxidoreductases catalyze electron transfer reactions that ultimately provide the energy for life. A limited set of ancestral protein-metal modules are…”
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Evolutionary history of redox metal-binding domains across the tree of life by Harel, Arye, Bromberg, Yana, Falkowski, Paul G., Bhattacharya, Debashish

“…Oxidoreductases mediate electron transfer (i.e., redox) reactions across the tree of life and ultimately facilitate the biologically driven fluxes of hydrogen,…”
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role of nutricline depth in regulating the ocean carbon cycle by Cermeño, Pedro, Dutkiewicz, Stephanie, Harris, Roger P, Follows, Mick, Schofield, Oscar, Falkowski, Paul G

“…Carbon uptake by marine phytoplankton, and its export as organic matter to the ocean interior (i.e., the "biological pump"), lowers the partial pressure of…”
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Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Determine the Fate of Photons Absorbed by Phytoplankton in the World's Oceans by Gorbunov, Maxim Y, Falkowski, Paul G

“…Approximately 45% of the photosynthetically fixed carbon on Earth occurs in the oceans in phytoplankton, which account for less than 1% of the world's…”
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Deciphering Primordial Cyanobacterial Genome Functions from Protein Network Analysis by Harel, Arye, Karkar, Slim, Cheng, Shu, Falkowski, Paul G., Bhattacharya, Debashish

“…The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) ∼2.4 billion years ago resulted from the accumulation of oxygen by the ancestors of cyanobacteria [1–3]. Cyanobacteria continue…”
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