Microbial rhodopsins are major contributors to the solar energy captured in the sea

Authors: Laura Gómez‐Consarnau, John A. Raven, Naomi M. Levine, Lynda S. Cutter, Deli Wang, Brian Seegers, Javier Arı́stegui, Jed A. Fuhrman, Josep M. Gasol, Sergio A. Sañudo‐Wilhelmy - Science Advances 2019 cited by 152

-based phototrophy and that this energy is sufficient to sustain bacterial basal metabolism. This suggests that proteorhodopsins are a major energy-transducing mechanism to harvest solar energy in the surface ocean.