| Range |
0.6 to 2.1 µm
|
| Organism |
Cyanobacteria Synechococcus spp. |
| Reference |
S. Bertilsson, O. Berglund, D. M. Karl, S. W. Chisholm, Elemental composition of marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus: Implications for the ecological stoichiometry of the sea, Limnol. Oceanogr., 48(5), 2003, 1721–1731 link p.1721 right column |
| Primary Source |
Herdman, M., R. W. Castenholz, J. B. Waterbury, and R. Rippka. 2001. Form-genus XIII. Synechococcus, p. 508–512. In D. R. Boone, R. W. Castenholz, and G. M. Garrity [eds.], Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology. V. 1, 2nd ed. Springer. |
| Comments |
See Kihara et al., 2014 PubMed ID 24806920 p.1885 right column 3rd paragraph: "Synechococcus cell sizes vary between 0.8 and ~1.5 µm in diameter..." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
108790 |