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Cellular C:N ratio in the nutrient-replete cultures of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

Range	5 to 5.7 Table - link unitless
Organism	Cyanobacteria
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.1726 left column bottom paragraph and p.1727 right column bottom paragraph and table 3
Comments	"The cellular C:N in the nutrient-replete cultures of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus varied between 5 and 5.7 (Table 3). These ratios are within the observed range of C:N for nutrient-replete cultures of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton (Table 3) and are also consistent with reported values of C:N in two different marine Synechococcus strains (range, 4.4–8.7 Biddanda and Benner 1997 Lourenc¸o et al. 1998)."
Entered by	Uri M
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