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Like all cyanobacteria,Synechocystis branches on the evolutionary tree from its ancestral root,Gloeobacter violaceus.[2]Synechocystis is notdiazotrophic, and is closely related to another model organism,Cyanothece ATCC 51442.[3] It has been suggested that originallySynechocystis possessed the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, but lost the genes required for the process.[4]Synechocystis can detect light and move in the direction of light.[5]
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