Cyanobacteria can live symbiotically with organisms such as dinoflagellates, but not much is understood about how these partnerships may affect microbial ecology. In a study published Monday (June 24), microbiologists sequenced the genome of cyanobacteria that previously went undetected because of their symbiotic relationship with Ornithocercus marine dinoflagellates.
T. Nakayama et al., “Single-cell genomics unveiled a cryptic cyanobacterial lineage with a worldwide distribution hidden by a dinoflagellate host,” PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1902538116, 2019.
