The cyanobiont in an Azolla fern is neither Anabaena nor Nostoc.
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The cyanobacterial symbionts in the fern Azolla have generally been ascribed to either the Anabaena or Nostoc genera. By using comparisons of the sequences of the phycocyanin intergenic spacer and a fragment of the 16S rRNA, we found that the cyanobiont from an Azolla belongs to neither of these genera.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- FEMS microbiology letters
دوره 229 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003