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Prochloron

A genus of PROCHLOROPHYTES containing unicellular, spherical bacteria without a mucilaginous sheath. They are found almost exclusively as… 
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians.
Prochloron is an oxygenic photosynthetic bacterium that lives in obligate symbiosis with didemnid ascidians, such as Diplosoma… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Structure of a photosystem II supercomplex isolated from Prochloron didemni retaining its chlorophyll a/b light-harvesting system
Prochlorophytes are a class of cyanobacteria that do not use phycobiliproteins as light-harvesting systems, but contain… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Light-harvesting chlorophyll c-like pigment in Prochloron.
A chlorophyll c-like pigment, similar to magnesium-3,8-divinyl pheoporphyrin a5 monomethyl ester, has been isolated from… 
1992
1992
Sequence of Prochloron didemni atpBE and the inference of chloroplast origins.
The prochlorophytes, oxygenic photosynthetic prokaryotes containing chlorophylls a and b, have been put forward as descended from… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
A new prokaryote containing chlorophylls a and b
Prochlorophyta, suggested as a new division of prokaryotes1, lack phycobilin pigments characteristic of cyanobacteria, but… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Prochloron--a status report.
Prochloron is a genus of prokaryotic algae with photosynthetic pigments like those of chlorophytes. Prochlorophytes are almost… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Partial sequence of 16S ribosomal RNA and the phylogeny of Prochloron
Prochloron, a symbiont of colonial ascidians, is a unicellular prokaryote, containing chlorophylls a and b and lacking… 
Review
1981
Review
1981
PROCHLORON AND THE THEORY OF SYMBIOGENESIS *
Marine biologists have known for many decades that certain tropical didemnids harbor zoochlorella-like symbionts. (Didemnids are… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Supramolecular structure of stacked and unstacked regions of the photosynthetic membranes of Prochloron sp., a prokaryote.
Freeze-fracture replicas of the photosynthetic prokaryote Prochloron sp., collected at Coconut Island, Hawaii, show that the… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Photosynthetic unit size, carotenoids, and chlorophyll-protein composition of Prochloron sp., a prokaryotic green alga.
Six samples of the prokaryotic, unicellular algae Prochloron sp., which occur in association with didemnid ascidians, were… 
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