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BMC Genomics BioMed Central Research article Open Access A comparative genomics approach to understanding the biosynthesis of the sunscreen scytonemin in cyanobacteria †1,2 †1 1 1 Tanya Soule , Kendra Palmer , Qunjie Gao , Ruth M Potrafka , 1 1 Valerie Stout and Ferran Garcia-Pichel* Address: 1School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA and 2Environmental Biotechnology, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina 29808, USA Email: Tanya Soule - tanya.soule@; Kendra Palmer - kendra.harris@; Qunjie Gao - gao.qunjie@; Ruth M Potrafka - ruth.potrafka@; Valerie Stout - vstout@; Ferran Garcia-Pichel* - ferran@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 24 July 2009 Received: 6 January 2009 Accepted: 24 July 2009 BMC Genomics 2009, 10:336 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-336 This article is available from: /1471-2164/10/336 © 2009 Soule et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The extracellular sunscreen scytonemin is the most common and widespread indole- alkaloid among cyanobacteria. Previous research