DOE GTL 13-May-2002

In contrast, Prochlorococcus lacks phycobilisomes, and contains divinyl chlorophyll a (chl a2) and divinyl chlorophyll b (chl b2) as its major photosynthetic pigments (Goericke and Repeta 1992). The latter enable it to efficiently absorb the blue light in the deep ocean (Morel et al. 1993; Moore et al. 1995). ................
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