Relationship between diameter of the filament and cell shape in blue-green algae
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- 2 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in British Phycological Journal
- Vol. 16 (1) , 55-58
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00071618100650051
Abstract
Observations on infralittoral blue-green algae and a literature survey show that filamentous blue-green algae of average size tend to have isodiametric cells, while the very narrow ones often have cylindrical cells and the very large forms have only discoid cells. A possible interpretation of this phenomenon is presented, based on the short life of prokaryotic messenger RNAs.Keywords
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