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Prochlorococcus (pro-cloe-row-cock-us) marinus, a tiny globular cyanobacterium (blue-green alga). This type of organism is extremely abundant in the tropical and warm temperate regions of the open oceans, and some scientists claim it is the most abundant organism on earth. Differential interference microscopy.
data on this strain.
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Synechococcus (sin-eck-owe-cock-us), a rod or sausage shaped cyanobacterium (blue green alga) which dominates in the upper two green layers of this microbial mat which was provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site in Yellowstone National Park, photograph provided by Mike Ferris and David Ward.
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Synechococcus (sin-eck-owe-cock-us), a rod or sausage shaped cyanobacterium (blue green alga) which comes from the upper layers of a microbial mat. The cells have terminal inclusions. Other bacteria are present in the same sample. Phase contrast. Material provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site in Yellowstone National Park, photograph by Mike Ferris and David Patterson.
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Synechococcus (sin-eck-owe-cock-us), a rod or sausage shaped cyanobacterium (blue green alga) which comes from the upper layers of a microbial mat. This is an aggregate of cells. Phase contrast. Material provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site in Yellowstone National Park, photograph by Mike Ferris and David Patterson.
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Synechococcus (sin-eck-owe-cock-us), a rod or sausage shaped cyanobacterium (blue green alga) which comes from the upper layers of a microbial mat. This detailed cell shows the presence of deposits at the ends of the cells, as well as small aggregates within the cell. Material from Nymph Creek, a thermal site in Yellowstone National Park, photograph by Kathy Sheehan and David Patterson.
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Synechococcus (sinm-eck-owe-cock-us), this pair of matched micrographs shows bacteria, mostly Synechococcus and Chloroflexus) from a mat sample. The phase contrast shot to the left shows the bacteria, the image to the right shows autofluorescence. Only the sausage-shaped Synechococcus exhibits autofluorescence. Phase contrast and fluorescence. Material provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site in Yellowstone National Park, photograph by Mike Ferris and David Patterson.
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Synechococcus (sin-eck-o-cock-us) is a blue-green alga (cyanobacterium) that may have either a blue green or (as here) a red colour. Cluster of globular cells. Differential interference microscopy.
data on this strain.
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Synechococcus (sin-eck-o-cock-us) is a blue-green alga (cyanobacterium) that may have either a blue green or (as here) a red colour. Cluster of globular cells. Differential interference microscopy.
data on this strain.
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An individual Synechococcus cell.
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These cells have been squashed slightly. They were found in water that was in placed coloured red because of the large numbers of red bacteria. This species is quite large. Differential interefernce contrast optics.
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Merismopedia (mer-is-mo-pea-dee-a) is a blue-green alga or cyanobacterium (blue-green alga). The genus is distinguished by the square-packed pattern of the coccoid cells. It is common in sediments, but the number of cells which occur in a colony may vary from only a few to thousands. As a cyanobacterium, the photosynthetic pigments are located throughout the cytoplasm. Differential interference contrast
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Merismopedia (mer-is-mo-pea-dee-a) is a blue-green alga or cyanobacterium. The genus is distinguished by the square-packed pattern of the coccoid cells. It is common in sediments, but the number of cells which occur in a colony may vary from only a few to thousands. As a cyanobacterium, the photosynthetic pigments are located throughout the cytoplasm. These can be seen if the cells are illuminated with ultra-violet light and then the distribution of the pigment detected by the resulting fluorescence. Fluorescence microscopy.
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Merismopedia (mer-is-mo-pea-dee-a) is a blue-green alga or cyanobacterium. The genus is distinguished by the square-packed pattern of the coccoid cells. It is common in sediments, but the number of cells which occur in a colony may vary from only a few to thousands. As a cyanobacterium, the photosynthetic pigments are located throughout the cytoplasm. Differential interference contrast.
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Merismopedia (mer-is-mo-pea-dee-a) is a blue-green alga or cyanobacterium. The genus is distinguished by the square-packed pattern of the coccoid cells. It is common in sediments, but the number of cells which occur in a colony may vary from only a few to thousands. As a cyanobacterium, the photosynthetic pigments are located throughout the cytoplasm. Differential interference contrast
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Merismopedia (mer-is-mo-pea-dee-a) is a blue-green alga or cyanobacterium. The genus is distinguished by the square-packed pattern of the coccoid cells. It is common in sediments, but the number of cells which occur in a colony may vary from only a few to thousands. As a cyanobacterium, the photosynthetic pigments are located throughout the cytoplasm. Differential interference contrast
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Merismopedia. Colony observed in sandy and muddy marine sediments in the vicinity of Broome, Western Australia in September 2003. This image was taken using differential interference contrast optics. This work was supported by the Australian Biological Resources Study.
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The cells of the bluegreen alga (or cyanobacteria) Merismopedia are arranged in a square plate lying in a mucilaginous envelope. Collected from Bodden, the brackish waters lying between the isles of Hiddensee and Ruegen (German Baltic Sea). This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.
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Chamaesiphon (ca-may-sigh-phon) (also known as Entophysalis) elongate cyanobacterium with spores forming at the distal end, basal part with mucus sheath. Found as one of several cyanobacterial epibionts on the leaves of the moss Hygrohypnum, a site which seems to be a focus for nitrogen fixation. Differential interference contrast.