Abstract:The dominance of cyanobacteria and their adaptability to changing climates might be attributed to their morphological plasticity related to external layers. The content of exopolysaccharides in cyanobacterial external layers has been shown to increase at elevated temperatures. However, the answers to the questions of why and how cyanobacteria adapt to varying temperatures by adjusting the physiological and biophysical properties of their external layers are still not clear.
We cultivated three cyanobacterial s… Show more
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