2 papers
physics.bio-ph2017
Properties of cyanobacterial UV-absorbing pigments suggest their evolution was driven by optimizing photon dissipation rather than photoprotection
Aleksandar Simeonov, Karo Michaelian
An ancient repertoire of UV absorbing pigments which survive today in the phylogenetically oldest extant photosynthetic organisms the cyanobacteria point to a direction in evolutio…
astro-ph.EP2016
Thermodynamic Explanation for the Cosmic Ubiquity of Organic Pigments
Karo Michaelian, Aleksandar Simeonov
There is increasingly more evidence being accumulated for the occurrence of large amounts of organic material in the cosmos, particularly in the form of aromatic compounds. These m…