Exploring the mechanisms underlying the evolution of plastids through the study of an unusual nitrogen-fixing symbiosis

Project Information

UCYN2PLAST

Grant agreement ID: 749380

DOI 10.3030/749380

Project closed

EC signature date 10 March 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 1 November 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 246 668,40

EU contribution € 246 668,40

Coordinated by

SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Intriguing size distribution of the uncultured and globally widespread marine non-cyanobacterial diazotroph Gamma-A

Author(s): Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo, Jonathan P. Zehr
Published in: The ISME Journal, 2021, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00765-1

Critical Role of Light in the Growth and Activity of the Marine N2-Fixing UCYN-A Symbiosis

Author(s): Marine Landa, Kendra A Turk-Kubo, Francisco M Cornejo-Castillo, Britt A Henke, Jonathan P Zehr
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.666739

Global distribution patterns of marine nitrogen-fixers by imaging and molecular methods

Author(s): Juan José Pierella Karlusich, Eric Pelletier, Fabien Lombard, Madeline Carsique, Etienne Dvorak, Sébastien Colin, Marc Picheral, Francisco M Cornejo-Castillo, Silvia G Acinas, Rainer Pepperkok, Eric Karsenti, Colomban de Vargas, Patrick Wincker, Chris Bowler, Rachel A Foster
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24299-y

Hopanoid lipids may facilitate aerobic nitrogen fixation in the ocean

Author(s): Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo, Jonathan P. Zehr
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 116/37, 2019, Page(s) 18269-18271, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908165116

UCYN-A3, a newly characterized open ocean sublineage of the symbiotic N 2 -fixing cyanobacterium Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa

Author(s): Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo, Maria del Carmen Muñoz-Marín, Kendra A. Turk-Kubo, Marta Royo-Llonch, Hanna Farnelid, Silvia G. Acinas, Jonathan P. Zehr
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, Issue 21/1, 2019, Page(s) 111-124, ISSN 1462-2912
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14429

Other (1)

Massive export of diazotrophs across the South Pacific tropical Ocean

Author(s): Sophie Bonnet, Mar Benavides, Frédéric A.C. Le Moigne, Mercedes Camps, Antoine Torremocha, Olivier Grosso, Céline Dimier, Dina Spungin, Ilana Berman-Frank, Laurence Garczarek, Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo
Published in: bioRxiv, 2021
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.07.442706