Back from the dead; the curious tale of the predatory cyanobacterium Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus
An uncultured non-photosynthetic basal lineage of the Cyanobacteria, the Melainabacteria, was recently characterised by metagenomic analyses of aphotic environmental samples. However, a predatory bacterium, Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus, originally described in 1972 appears to be the first cultured r...
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| Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2015-05-01
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| Series: | PeerJ |
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/968.pdf |