Ultrastructural and molecular characterization of cyanobacterial symbionts in Dictyocoryne profunda (polycystine radiolaria)
Ultrastructural and molecular characterization of cyanobacterial symbionts in Dictyocoryne profunda (polycystine radiolaria)
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DOI:
10.1007/s13199-012-0174-2
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发表时间:
2012-05
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Tomoko Yuasa;T. Horiguchi;S. Mayama;A. Matsuoka;O. Takahashi
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作者:
Tomoko Yuasa;T. Horiguchi;S. Mayama;A. Matsuoka;O. Takahashi
Cyanobacterial symbionts were detected in the extracytoplasm of the polycystine radiolarianDictyocoryne profundaEhrenberg. The bacterial symbionts were observed as numerous spherical bodies ~0.5–1.0 μm in diameter under transmission electron microscopy. They were present in a very restricted location close to the periphery of the host radiolarian shell, adjacent to the central capsular wall. Several cells of them may have been in the process of cell division or just divided. The symbionts had thylakoid-like structures, which ran around the cell periphery in two or three concentric layers. Based on the small subunit ribosomal DNA (16S rDNA) phylogenetic analyses, the intracellular symbiotic bacteria grouped with cyanobacteria belonging to the genusSynechococcus. Three sequences, one from each of three specimens ofD. profunda, collected in March/October 2009 and March 2010 from the East China Sea, were the same and branched withinSynechococcusclade II, that is characterized by strains with low amounts of phycourobilin (PUB).