Microenvironmental ecology of the chlorophyll b-containing symbiotic cyanobacterium Prochloron in the didemnid ascidian Lissoclinum patella

• Main Authors: Kühl, Michael, Behrendt, Lars, Trampe, Erik, Qvortrup, Klaus, Schreiber, Ulrich, Klimant, Ingo, Borisov, Sergey M., Larkum, Anthony W. D.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96211; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10222
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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) unicellular c...