| epibiosis of oxygenic phototrophs containing chlorophylls a, b, c, and d on the colonial ascidian cystodytes dellechiajei. | the external surfaces of marine animals are colonized by a wide variety of epibionts. here, we study the phototrophic epibiotic community attached to the colonial ascidian cystodytes dellechiajei collected in the mediterranean sea. epifluorescence microscopy analysis showed abundant filamentous cyanobacteria on the upper and basal parts of the ascidian that displayed autofluorescence, as well as some unicellular cyanobacteria, diatoms, and structures, which could belong to microscopic rhodophyte ... | 2011 | 20532497 |
| taxonomic revision of water-bloom-forming species of oscillatorioid cyanobacteria. | a polyphasic approach was used to clarify the taxonomy of the water-bloom-forming oscillatorioid cyanobacteria. seventy-five strains of oscillatorioid cyanobacteria were characterized by 16s rdna sequence analysis, dna base composition, dna-dna hybridization, fatty acid composition, phycobilin pigment composition, complementary chromatic adaptation, morphological characters, growth temperature and salinity tolerance. phylogenetic analysis based on 16s rdna sequences divided the strains into six ... | 2002 | 12361260 |