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Dillon, Jesse G.; Castenholz, Richard W. The synthesis of the UV-screening pigment, scytonemin, and photosynthetic performance in isolates from closely related natural populations of cyanobacteria (Calothrix sp.). Environmental Microbiology. 2003, 5 (6): 484–91. PMID 12755715. doi:10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00436.x.
Proteau, P. J.; Gerwick, W. H.; Garcia-Pichel, F.; Castenholz, R. The structure of scytonemin, an ultraviolet sunscreen pigment from the sheaths of cyanobacteria. Experientia. 1993, 49 (9): 825–9. PMID 8405307. doi:10.1007/BF01923559.
M. Bandaranayake, Wickramasinghe. Mycosporines: are they nature’s sunscreens?. Natural Product Reports. 1998, 15 (2): 159–72. PMID 9586224. doi:10.1039/A815159Y.
