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IN marked contrast to their freshwater counterparts, marine planktonic cyanobacteria are restricted to a few nostocalean genera, of which only Trichodesmium is capable of forming extensive water blooms1–3. We report here the widespread occurrence of a small, marine, chroococcalean cyanobacterium belonging to the genus Synechococcus.
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WATERBURY, J., WATSON, S., GUILLARD, R. et al. Widespread occurrence of a unicellular, marine, planktonic, cyanobacterium. Nature 277, 293–294 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/277293a0
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