NOUN
- predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton
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- Sacramento August 6, 2010 - Due to its potential health risks, federal, state, and tribal agencies are urging swimmers, boaters and recreational users to avoid contact with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) now blooming in Copco and Iron Gate YubaNet.com
- Should we address the question to their ancestral relatives, the rickettsiae and the cyanobacteria? Small Things Considered
- Temporal programs reflecting the 24 h cycle of day and night are expressed by most organisms from microscopic cyanobacteria to macroscopic humans.
- All cyanobacteria are unicellular, though many grow in colonies or filaments, often surrounded by a gelatinous or mucilaginous sheath.
- The toxin-producing "Cyanobacteria," or blue-green algae, has been identified in 23 Oregon lakes, reservoirs and rivers over the last ten years. OPB News
- The arctic soil and wetland microflora is composed mainly of species from Cyanobacteria, Chrysophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Charophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Zygnemaphyceae. Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
- The reddish purple open chain tetrapyrrole pigment phycoerythrobilin max 550 nm) is an essential chromophore of the light-harvesting phycobiliproteins of most cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptomonads. Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
- An analysis of possible alpha, beta and gamma carbonic anhydrases in the cyanobacterial genomes shows that there is a wide diversity in carbonic anhydrase gene content.
- There are many Gram-Negative bacteria such as Cyanobacteria, Spirochaetes, E-coli, Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Diatoms and green algae exhibited up to ninefold higher growth rates than those for cyanobacterial species.