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Prochlorales
Medical Definition: | An order of GRAM-NEGATIVE OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA containing both chlorophylls a and b, but lacking phycobilins. There are two genera: PROCHLORON and PROCHLOROTHRIX. |
Guide Notes: | an order of gram-neg oxygenic photosyn bact |
Previously Indexed: | Cyanobacteria (1990-1997) |
Prochloron - A genus of PROCHLORALES containing unicellular, spherical bacteria without a mucilaginous sheath. They are found almost exclusively as extracellular symbionts of colonial ascidians on subtropical or tropical marine shores. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed) | |
Prochlorothrix - A genus of PROCHLORALES occurring in unbranched chains of indefinite length and containing both chlorophylls a and b. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed) |
Prochlorales Medical Definitions and Terms
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