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The Bigger The Fewer: Size, Taxonomic Diversity and The Range of Chlorophyll(Ide) Pigments in Oxygen-Evolving Marine Photolithotrophs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

John A. Raven
John A. Raven
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN
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There is a greater diversity of spectrally distinct chlorophyll(ide) pigments in individuals of many of the large number of higher taxa of marine oxygen-evolvers which contain only small organisms than in those few higher taxa which also (or only) have large-sized organisms. The occurrence of more types of pigment in smaller organisms can be mechanistically related to the lesser degree of self-shading in smaller organisms, thus allowing spectral diversity to be reflected in enhanced photon absorption from a given light field as a result of multiple spectral forms of chlorophyll(ide)s. This provides a mechanistic basis with ecological significance for the greater chlorophyll(ide) diversity in small marine O2-evolvers which show greater biodiversity at the level of higher taxa than do classes or divisions which are comprised only, or predominantly, of macrophytes (Ulvophyceae, Rhodophyta, Phaetophyta, seagrasses).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , February 1996 , pp. 211 - 217
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1996

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