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The Prochlorophytes

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The Prokaryotes

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Prochlorophytes (Lewin, 1976) are phototrophic prokaryotes that contain chlorophylls a and b and are capable of evolving oxygen when suitably illuminated. Some microbiologists may prefer to regard prochlorophytes and cyanophytes as bacteria (Gibbons and Murray, 1978). However, to avoid the circumlocutions that this would entail I shall here refer to prochlorophytes as algae, using the word “alga” in its loose classical sense, without implications of monophylesis or polyphylesis, prokaryosis or eukaryosis.

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  1. Ralph A. Lewin
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  1. Department of Bacteriology, University of California, 95616, Davis, California, USA

    Mortimer P. Starr

  2. Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Bayreuth, 8580, Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

    Heinz Stolp

  3. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 5300, Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  4. Bacteriology Division, Centers for Disease Control, 30333, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Albert Balows

  5. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, 3400, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Schlegel

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Lewin, R.A. (1981). The Prochlorophytes. In: Starr, M.P., Stolp, H., Trüper, H.G., Balows, A., Schlegel, H.G. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9_13

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