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UV hyper-resistance in Prochlorococcus MED4 results from a single base pair deletion just upstream of an operon encoding nudix hydrolase and photolyase
Exposure to solar radiation can cause mortality in natural communities of pico-phytoplankton, both at the surface and to a depth of at least 30 m. DNA damage is a significant cause of death, mainly due to cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer formation, which can be lethal if not repaired. While developing a...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20345942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02203.x |