Microenvironmental Ecology of the Chlorophyll b-containing Symbiotic Cyanobacterium Prochloron in the Didemnid Ascidian Lissoclinum patella

Microenvironmental Ecology of the Chlorophyll b-containing Symbiotic Cyanobacterium Prochloron in the Didemnid Ascidian Lissoclinum patella

The discovery of the cyanobacterium Prochloron was the first finding of a bacterial oxyphototroph with chlorophyll (Chl) b, in addition to Chl a. It was first described as Prochloron didemni but a number of clades have since been described. Prochloron is a conspicuously large (7-25 µm) unic...

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Main Authors: Michael eKühl, Lars eBehrendt, Erik Christian Løvbjerg Trampe, Klaus eQvortrup, Ulrich eSchreiber, Sergey M. eBorisov, Ingo eKlimant, Anthony W. D. eLarkum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Cyanobacteria
Photobiology
Photosynthesis
Prochloron
Symbiosis
microenvironment
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00402/full

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