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n. In botany, a yellow or dark-brown coloring matter found in scytonematoid algæ.

"We show that scytonemin biosynthetic genes are highly conserved among evolutionarily diverse strains, likely include more genes than previously determined, and are predicted to involve compartmentalization of the biosynthetic pathway in the cell, an unusual trait for prokaryotes."

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