EVIDENCE FOR A CRYPTOMONAD SYMBIONT IN THE CILIATE, CYCLOTRICHIUM MEUNIERI(1).
Extracts of the marine ciliate Cyclotrichium meunieri contained chlorophylls a and c, carotenoids, and a phycoerythrin with a single absorbance maximum at 542 nm. This assemblage of pigments suggests that the numerous photosynthetic symbionts present in each ciliate cell belong to the Cryptophyceae.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973.
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