Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians.

doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01209.x

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Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians.

Environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2007

Münchhoff Julia, Hirose Euichi, Maruyama Tadashi, Sunairi Michio, Burns Brendan P, Neilan Brett A

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Prochloron is an oxygenic photosynthetic bacterium that lives in obligate symbiosis with didemnid ascidians, such as Diplosoma spp., Lissoclinum spp. and Trididemnum spp. This study investigated the genetic diversity of the genus Prochloron by constructing a phylogenetic tree based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences of 27 isolates from 11 species of didemnid ascidians collected from Japan, Australia and the USA. The...

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Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians.

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Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians.

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