A study led by Professor David Kehoe of IU Biology and Frédéric Partensky of Sorbonne University/CNRS has been published in PNAS. Their work explains for the first time a key part of a process that allows Synechococcus, a widespread ocean bacterium, to efficiently convert sunlight into oxygen.
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