Nomenclature Abstract for Synechococcus lividus McNeill et al. 2006.

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Thomas Parker ◽  
George M Garrity
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Thomas Parker ◽  
Sarah Wigley ◽  
George M Garrity

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Holt ◽  
M. R. Edwards

The thermophilic unicellular blue-green alga, Synechococcus lividus, was studied by electron microscopy in thin sections and by the freeze-etching technique. Thin sections revealed subcellular structures like those observed by other authors in mesophilic blue-green algae. In the freeze-etched fractures similar results were obtained but, in addition, surface views of plasma and thylakoidal membranes were examined in detail. The many inclusions present in the freeze-etched preparations confirmed those displayed in thin sections and are interpreted as polyhedral, polyphosphate, and lipid bodies. Some unidentified osmiophilic granules and also phycobilisomes were seen.


1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 510-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oranda H. W. Kao ◽  
Donald S. Berns

C-phycocyanin from two strains of the thermotolerant blue-green alga, Mastigocladus laminosus (NZ-DB2-m and I-30-m), that grow within different temperature ranges have been characterized with respect to aggregation, immunologic properties, subunit composition, and thermodenaturation. The critical thermal-denaturation temperature for phycocyanin from both strains of M. laminosus phycocyanin is 60 °C which is higher than that for mesophilic phycocyanin. Immunodiffusion studies have shown that these two strains of M. laminosus exhibit no antigenic differences and are closely related to the mesophilic Plectonema calothricoides and the thermophilic Synechococcus lividus (strain 3). Neither phenol nor α-naphthol has any effect on phycocyanin aggregation in these two strains of M. laminosus. There is also no enhancement of formation of large aggregates at their elevated temperature of cultivation. Furthermore, the phycocyanin of both strains of M. laminosus does not demonstrate any large amount of 19S or higher aggregates at any pH value. These observations suggest that the mode of adaptation of M. laminosus phycocyanin to high temperature is different from that previously encountered. It is also important to note that phycocyanin is essentially unchanged whether it is extracted from the same strain, M. laminosus (NZ-DB2-m), grown at either 50° or 37 °C.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Thomas Parker ◽  
Dorothea Taylor ◽  
George M Garrity

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