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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 rRN...
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