Picocyanobacteria

Picocyanobacteria are cyanobacteria that are part of the picoplankton, which is the fraction of plankton composed by cells between 0.2 and 2 μm.^[1] Picocyanobacteria comprise the smallest photoautotrophs.^[2]

Freshwater picocyanobacteria genera include Synechococcus, Cyanobium, and Synechocystis,^[3] and marine picocyanobacteria genera are represented primarily by Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus.^[4]

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Cabello-Yeves, Pedro J.; Callieri, Cristiana; Picazo, Antonio; Schallenberg, Lena; Huber, Paula; Roda-Garcia, Juan J.; Bartosiewicz, Maciej; Belykh, Olga I.; Tikhonova, Irina V.; Torcello-Requena, Alberto; De Prado, Paula Martin; Puxty, Richard J.; Millard, Andrew D.; Camacho, Antonio; Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco; Scanlan, David J. (2022-08-08). "Elucidating the picocyanobacteria salinity divide through ecogenomics of new freshwater isolates". BMC Biology. 20 (1): 175. doi:10.1186/s12915-022-01379-z. ISSN 1741-7007. PMC 9361551. PMID 35941649.
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Jasser, Iwona; Callieri, Cristiana (2016-12-20). "Picocyanobacteria: The Smallest Cell-Size Cyanobacteria". Handbook of Cyanobacterial Monitoring and Cyanotoxin Analysis. Wiley. pp. 19–27. doi:10.1002/9781119068761.ch3. ISBN 978-1-119-06868-6.
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Sánchez-Baracaldo, Patricia; Bianchini, Giorgio; Di Cesare, Andrea; Callieri, Cristiana; Chrismas, Nathan A. M. (2019-01-30). "Insights Into the Evolution of Picocyanobacteria and Phycoerythrin Genes (mpeBA and cpeBA)". Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 45. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00045. ISSN 1664-302X. PMC 6363710. PMID 30761097.

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