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The VirFix project investigates how viruses infecting cyanobacteria affect their ability to capture carbon dioxide. By exploring the molecular mechanisms involved, it aims to enhance understanding of marine carbon cycling and the role of these viruses in global primary production.
Around half of the carbon dioxide (CO2) fixation on Earth occurs in marine systems, environments dominated by the cyanobacterial genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus.
Viruses infecting these organisms (cyanophages) divert the flow of an estimated 20% of globally fixed CO2.
Intriguingly, my lab has recently shown that cyanophage can directly inhibit host CO2 fixation capacity whilst at the same time carry genes essential for the light-driven reactions of photosynthesis.
VirFix will elucidate…
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