Biology:Calothrix
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Short description: Genus of bacteria
Calothrix | |
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A 1921 drawing of Calothrix | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Cyanobacteria |
Class: | Cyanophyceae |
Order: | Nostocales |
Family: | Rivulariaceae |
Genus: | Calothrix Bornet & Flahault 1886[1] |
Species | |
Calothrix adscendens |
Calothrix is a genus of cyanobacteria. They are generally found in freshwater.[2]
![](/wiki/images/thumb/0/05/Cyanobacteria_in_symbiosis_with_a_diatom.png/250px-Cyanobacteria_in_symbiosis_with_a_diatom.png)
Bright-field microscopy image of epiphytic cyanobacterial symbiont Calothrix rhizosoleniae SC01 9 (indicated by arrows) attached to a host diatom Chaetoceros sp. (c). Scale bar, 50 μm.
References
- ↑ "Calothrix". http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=e72f7bde74b4a1ec1&-session=abv4:AC1F10080a1ca385A6HQ2B772EE5. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ↑ Whitman WB, ed (2015). "Form-Calothrix". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00462.
Wikidata ☰ Q52352 entry
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