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Isolation and Purification of Cyanobacteria: Some General Principles

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The Prokaryotes

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Oxygenic photosynthesis is the dominant mode of nutrition of cyanobacteria. Despite this seeming metabolic uniformity, their ecological diversity is remarkable; they occupy a very wide range of illuminated ecological niches in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments.

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  1. Department of Bacteriology, University of California, 95616, Davis, California, USA

    Mortimer P. Starr

  2. Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Bayreuth, 8580, Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

    Heinz Stolp

  3. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 5300, Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  4. Bacteriology Division, Centers for Disease Control, 30333, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Albert Balows

  5. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, 3400, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Schlegel

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Rippka, R., Waterbury, J.B., Stanier, R.Y. (1981). Isolation and Purification of Cyanobacteria: Some General Principles. In: Starr, M.P., Stolp, H., Trüper, H.G., Balows, A., Schlegel, H.G. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9_8

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