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The 39 pages that link to Cyanobacteria, each with the reason it gives.

• EutrophicationRelated: Excess nutrients can favor cyanobacterial blooms, including toxin-producing species.

• OxygenRelated: Ancient cyanobacteria helped establish oxygen-producing photosynthesis.

• ChloroplastRelated: Chloroplasts descend from an endosymbiotic lineage related to these photosynthetic bacteria.

• LichenRelated: Some lichens use cyanobacteria as photobionts, gaining access to fixed nitrogen.

• Great Oxidation EventRelated: Their ancient oxygen production is a leading biological explanation for the atmospheric rise.

• PhytoplanktonBroader topic: Some cyanobacteria, including marine picocyanobacteria, are abundant drifting primary producers.

• Biological nitrogen fixationRelated: Certain cyanobacteria add fixed nitrogen to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

• ArchaeplastidaRelated: An ancient cyanobacterium became the plastid-bearing endosymbiont in Archaeplastida’s ancestry.

• StromatoliteRelated: Cyanobacteria commonly inhabit stromatolite-forming mats, though other microbes also contribute.

• EndosymbiosisRelated: Their photosynthetic machinery links plastids to a bacterial endosymbiont.

• Photosystem IIRelated: They contain photosystem II and were the source of the photosynthetic machinery inherited by chloroplasts.

• Green algaeCompared with: Cyanobacteria are prokaryotes, unlike the eukaryotic green algae whose plastids descend from them.

• Plant cellRelated: Chloroplasts evolved from a cyanobacterial ancestor through endosymbiosis.

• Primary endosymbiosisRelated: A cyanobacterium supplied the photosynthetic machinery that became the primary plastid.

• Oxygenic photosynthesisRelated: These bacteria are the only known prokaryotes that carry out oxygenic photosynthesis.

• PlastidRelated: Plastids descend from an ancestral cyanobacterium incorporated into a eukaryotic cell.

• Chlorophyll aRelated: Cyanobacteria use chlorophyll a in the photosystems that release oxygen.

• PhotobiontBroader topic: Some photobionts belong to this group and can also fix nitrogen.

• PaleoproterozoicRelated: Their photosynthesis supplied the oxygen whose accumulation reshaped the era.

• AlgaeCompared with: They resemble algae ecologically but are bacteria, not eukaryotic algae.

• Endosymbiotic gene transferRelated: Chloroplasts descend from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont whose genes were partly transferred to host genomes.

• FrankiaCompared with: Some cyanobacteria fix nitrogen, but Frankia is a non-photosynthetic actinobacterium.

• Oxygenation of Earth's atmosphereRelated: Their ancient oxygen production helped drive the atmosphere's transformation.

• IsidiumRelated: Some isidia carry cyanobacterial photobionts instead of, or alongside, green algae.

• SorediumRelated: Some lichens incorporate cyanobacteria, which can be carried in soredia.

• AutotrophBroader topic: They are widespread photoautotrophs that helped oxygenate Earth's atmosphere.

• ThylakoidNarrower topic: Cyanobacteria have thylakoids and are closely related to the ancestors of chloroplasts.

• EuglenaCompared with: Cyanobacteria photosynthesize without chloroplasts because they are prokaryotes, unlike Euglena.

• GlaucophyteRelated: Glaucophyte plastids descend from a cyanobacterium and retain signs of that ancestry.

• ParrotfishRelated: Cyanobacteria can form part of the microbial material consumed during reef scraping.

• SymbiogenesisRelated: Cyanobacteria are the ancestors of primary plastids, including chloroplasts.

• AnabaenaNarrower topic: Anabaena belongs to this group of photosynthetic bacteria.

• GeosminRelated: Certain cyanobacteria produce geosmin, contributing to earthy tastes and odors in water.

• Lobaria pulmonariaRelated: Cyanobacteria in lungwort can supply fixed nitrogen to the lichen partnership.

• NeoarcheanRelated: Their ancestors are central to hypotheses about oxygen production during the Neoarchean.

• Plastid DNARelated: Plastids descend from an ancient cyanobacterial lineage.

• Evolution of bacteriaBroader topic: Their photosynthesis reshaped Earth's atmosphere and the evolutionary opportunities available to other bacteria.

• Geological history of oxygenRelated: They are prominent candidates for the early biological source of atmospheric oxygen.

• Ocean surface ecosystemBroader topic: Marine cyanobacteria include abundant surface-water producers such as Prochlorococcus.