| Discovery, Early History and Phylogeny of Prochloron
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| Ralph A. Lewin, Lanna Cheng
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California
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Prochloron is a unicellular symbiotic alga asslociated with colonial ascidians on many warm tropical sea coasts. Originally regarded as a zoochlorella, it was first named as a cyanophyte, but later assigned to a new order, the Prochlorales. Most molecular biological data now indicate that its affinities lie in the eubacterial assemblage, somewhat closer to cyanophytes than to chloroplasts.
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| Key words:
Prochloron, prochlorophytes, chloroplasts, plastids, algae, ascidians, didemnids, symbiogenesis, phylogeny |
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