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Recent advances in our knowledge of the biological properties of the cyanobacteria (former «blue-green algae») are reviewed. The subjects discussed include: cyanobacterial cell structure and development; comparative aspects of photosyntetic structure and function in prokaryotes; carbon metabolism and its relation to obligate photoautotrophy; and special properties of cyanobacteria that are of ecological significance (temperature relationships, nitrogen fixation and facultative anoxygenic photosynthesis).
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Emil Chr. Hansen lecture delivered at the Carlsberg Laboratory Centennial and the Inauguration of the Carlsberg Research Center on September 28th, 1976
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Stanier, R.Y. The position of cyanobacteria in the world of phototrophs. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 42, 77 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906487
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906487