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Prochlorococcus and ocean plankton: uses in research

Also: Prochlorococcus, phytoplankton, cyanobacteria, Penny Chisholm

Prochlorococcus is a tiny photosynthetic bacterium, discovered in 1988, that is extremely abundant in sunlit ocean waters.

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Discovery of Prochlorococcus

Chisholm and colleagues described a new free-living prochlorophyte that is abundant in the sunlit (euphotic) zone of the open ocean.

As reported in: Chisholm, Olson, Zettler et al. (1988). A novel free-living prochlorophyte abundant in the oceanic euphotic zone. Nature. doi:10.1038/334340a0

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