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    Mediterranean Sea (strain MED). The name Prochlorococcus originated from the fact it was originally assumed that Prochlorococcus was related to Prochloron and other...
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    The smallest of all, Prochlorococcus, is just 0.5 to 0.8 micrometres across. In terms of numbers of individuals, Prochlorococcus is possibly the most...
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    Constants, Units, and Uncertainty. NIST. Retrieved 23 August 2011. "Prochlorococcus marinus MIT 9313 - Home". Joint Genome Institute. Archived from the...
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  • Two of the free-living bacterial taxa with the smallest genomes are Prochlorococcus and Pelagibacter ubique, both highly abundant marine bacteria commonly...
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    article by A.V. Pinevich ). In 1986 Prochlorococcus was found by Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm and colleagues. Prochlorococcus may be responsible for a significant...
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    viral particles.[citation needed] Certain cyanophages infect and burst Prochlorococcus, the world's smallest and most abundant primary producers. Marine cyanophages...
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    Cyanobacteria belonging to the genus Prochlorococcus are particularly remarkable. With a typical size of 0.6 μm, Prochlorococcus was discovered only in 1988 by...
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    hydrogen peroxide by helper microbes: the impacts on the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus and other beneficiaries in marine communities". Environmental Microbiology...
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    The smallest of all, Prochlorococcus, is just 0.5 to 0.8 micrometres across. In terms of individual numbers, Prochlorococcus is possibly the most plentiful...
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    A myovirus which infects cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus....
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    research focuses particularly on the most abundant marine phytoplankton, Prochlorococcus, that she discovered in the 1980s with Rob Olson and other collaborators...
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    photosynthetic plastids Paulinella amoeboids of the cyanobacteria genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus, or the "PS-clade". Secondary and tertiary endosymbiosis...
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    to the chlorophyll structures are known in the wild. For example, Prochlorococcus, a cyanobacterium, uses 8-vinyl Chl a and b. Chlorophylls can be extracted...
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    the major animal and plant species. The tiny marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, discovered in 1986, forms today part of the base of the ocean food...
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    Three lineages of cyanobacteria, Prochloraceae, Prochlorothrix and Prochlorococcus, independently evolved to have chlorophylls a and b instead of phycobilisomes...
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    diagnostic pigment for this organism is known. Zeaxanthin is also found in Prochlorococcus, red algae and as a minor pigment in some chlorophytes and eustigmatophytes...
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    allowed marine researchers to distinguish between dimly-fluorescing Prochlorococcus and heterotrophic microorganisms, a distinction that is difficult with...
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    modulate both microbial population size and diversity. The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, the most abundant oxygenic phototroph on Earth, contributes a substantial...
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    plays a major role in global carbon cycles The tiny cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is a major contributor to atmospheric oxygen The sea sparkle dinoflagellate...
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    picoflagellates and nanoflagellates), mostly composed of cyanobacteria (Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus) and picoeucaryotes such as Micromonas. Within more...
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    Swallow's work on the Swallow float in the late 1950s, the discovery of Prochlorococcus by a team of researchers in the 1980s, and various oceanographic data...
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  • is why open ocean appears blue and supports yellow species such as Prochlorococcus, which contains divinyl-chlorophyll a and b. Synechococcus, colored...
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    as the phytoplankton of the oceans. The tiny marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus was discovered in 1986 and accounts for up to half of the photosynthesis...
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  • Cyanobacteriota Class: Cyanophyceae Order: Synechococcales Family: Prochloraceae R. A. Lewin Genera Prochlorococcus Chisholm et al. 1992 Prochloron Lewin 1977...
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    pan-genome is Prochlorococcus, the core genome set is much smaller than the pangenome, which is used by different ecotypes of Prochlorococcus. Open pan-genome...
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    producers of the Earth’s oxygenic atmosphere. The marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus appear to have an E. coli like SOS system for repair...
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    these cyanobacteria come from the marine environment. These are six Prochlorococcus strains, seven marine Synechococcus strains, Trichodesmium erythraeum...
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    Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Synechococcus is cosmopolitan, having been reported across temperate and tropical waters. Prochlorococcus is a very small...
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    systems Williamson and her team focused on during this research was the Prochlorococcus marinus. This group of cyanobacteria are the most abundant photosynthetic...
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    There are a few notable and well-known exceptions that include most Prochlorococcus and some Synechococcus that can only take up nitrogen as ammonium....
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