Transmission electron micrograph showing a species of the cyanobacteria Synechococcus. The carboxysomes appear as polyhedral dark structures.
Synechococcus (from the Greek synechos, in succession, and the Greek kokkos, granule) is a unicellular cyanobacterium that is very widespread in the marine environment. Its size varies from 0.8 to 1.5 μm. The photosynthetic coccoid cells are preferentially found in well–lit surface waters where it can be very abundant (generally 1,000 to 200,000 cells per ml). Many freshwater species of Synechococcus have also been described.
The genome of S. elongatus strain PCC7002 has a size of 3.4 Mbp, whereas the oceanic strain WH8102 has a genome of size 2.4 Mbp.[1][2][3][citation needed]
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^X. Chen & W. R. Widger (1993). "Physical genome map of the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002". Journal of Bacteriology. 175 (16): 5106–5116. doi:10.1128/jb.175.16.5106-5116.1993. PMC 204977. PMID 8349551.
source. Marine Synechococcus species are traditionally not thought to fix nitrogen. In the last decade, several strains of Synechococcus elongatus have...
strains of Synechococcus elongatus have been produced in laboratory environments, which ultimately led to the production of Synechococcus elongatus UTEX...
cyanobacterium UCYN-A, Trichodesmium, as well as Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. From these lineages, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria are particularly...
Other forms of algae taken are Synechocystis minuscula, Synechococcus pevalekii, Synechococcus elongatus, Monoraphidium minutum, Oscillatoria sp. and Lyngbya...
In the Black Sea, several species are present, and as an example, Synechococcus spp. can be found throughout the photic zone, although concentration...
then be converted into biodiesel fuel. A strain of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus has been genetically engineered to produce the fuels isobutyraldehyde...
global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States...
base of the ocean food chain. Prochlorococcus is closely related to Synechococcus, another abundant photosynthetic cyanobacteria, which contains the light-harvesting...
marine sample of photosynthetic picoplankton by flow cytometry showing three different populations (Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotes)...
cyanobacteria. Recent research has demonstrated that the circadian clock of Synechococcus elongatus can be reconstituted in vitro with just the three proteins...
marine environments are represented by the genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Synechococcus is cosmopolitan, having been reported across temperate...
are dominated by cyanobacteria, such as Spirulina, Oscillatoria, and Synechococcus, and green sulfur bacteria such as Chloroflexus. These organisms are...
nanoflagellates), mostly composed of cyanobacteria (Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus) and picoeucaryotes such as Micromonas. Within more productive ecosystems...
structures called chromatophores, descended from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus. Chromatophores cannot survive outside their host. Chromatophore DNA...
Paulinella amoeboids of the cyanobacteria genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus, or the "PS-clade". Secondary and tertiary endosymbiosis events have...
exceptionally diverse variety of microbial life, mainly Candidatus Synechococcus. Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes...
1989). "Expression of Human Carbonic Anhydrase in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC7942 Creates a High CO(2)-Requiring Phenotype : Evidence for a Central...
cyanobacteria Synechococcus, the amount of phycourobilin in the phycobilisomes is correlated to the ecological niche the cells inhabit: offshore Synechococcus are...
discovered and characterized robust, 24-hour rhythms of nitrogen fixation in Synechococcus cyanobacteria, demonstrating circadian rhythmicity in a prokaryotic...
such as Prochlorococcus, which contains divinyl-chlorophyll a and b. Synechococcus, colored red with phycoerythrin, is adapted to coastal bodies, while...
this is debatable. As an example, the structure of C-phycocyanin from Synechococcus vulcanus has been refined to 1.6 Angstrom resolution. The (αβ) monomer...
genera include Synechococcus, Cyanobium, and Synechocystis, and marine picocyanobacteria genera are represented primarily by Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus...
A. sanguinea is found to be capable of ingesting the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. at values comparable to other heterotrophic phytoplankton. This...
used a luciferase reporter inserted into the genetically tractable Synechococcus sp., which was grown in a 12:12 light-dark cycle to ensure “entrainment”...
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