new organelle!!!!

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• Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga - Tyler H. Coale, et al.
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38603509/

  but wait, there's more:

  The nitroplast: A nitrogen-fixing organelle
  A bacterial endosymbiont of marine algae evolved to an organelle
  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8571

  Wow, this sounds really nifty!!! Anyone got full paper accesss? $30 a pop is a bit pricey, for this humble one.

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    12Image45

    Sorry its janky idk how to upload a pdf

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    • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks! It's better than anything I came up with. Also saw this: Share your PDF as a Link (https://pdfdeck.com/), which may or may not work. I would think one could put the PDF on NextCloud (or similar), and then share a link from there to a comment here.

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    • acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not OP but thanks for this! Can’t wait to read it.

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  • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry, I can’t figure out how to upload a non-image file.

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• EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hey can someone summarize this into lame man terms

  What I’ve got is New organelle which evolved from a separate organism similar to mitochondria and it allows alge to process nitrogen

  Is that right? And what does this mean for the ecosystem

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is exactly right. The alga has one more organelle that originated as a bacterial symbiont, just like mitochondria and chloroplasts, which is super cool! The alga, Braarudosphaera bigelowii, is a coccolithophore, which is very cool by itself. They are important part of the carbon cycle. And they loos supercool - they are covered in calcareous scales and are shaped like […wikimedia.org/…/Braarudosphaera_bigelowii.jpg](a dodecahedron!!!)

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  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They can fertilize themselves, removing the one thing plants can’t do on their own.

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• Protoknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this as exciting as it seems? It seems pretty exciting.

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. It is very exciting and cool.

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    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it’s a eukariotic algea, does it also have cloroplasts?

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• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah shit if this takes off plants won’t need us anymore.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Based based based based based

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    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Somehow I support this.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  UCYN-A is the nitrogen-fixer of the alga cell?

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  • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    UCYN-A (Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa) is a cyanobacterial symbiont of the unicellular algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii. And yes, it makes N2 into NH3, making that nitrogen fixed and available for B. bigelowii

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    UCYN-A is the organism. They’re calling it the “nitroplast”.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s catchy, all the kids will know it by heart

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• AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man, if they had more time to evolve and adapt this on masse we could see some improvements to the marine ecosystem!

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• match@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  mouth agape, pointing to the background

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