Synechococcus
Sign in to savethumb|224px| Transmission electron micrograph showing a species of the cyanobacteria Synechococcus. The carboxysomes appear as polyhedral dark structures.
Species
CLASS
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumCyanobacteria
- ClassCyanobacteriia
- OrderSynechococcales
- FamilySynechococcaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 38
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Synechococcaceae
- Collections
- NY, US, YPM, BPBM, IPA/SP, UFES
- Recorded in
- United States, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Austria, China, Brasil, Canada, Etats-Unis
Research
4,928 papers- Synechococcus plasticity under environmental changes.FEMS microbiology letters · 2017
- Picocyanobacterial Synechococcus in marine ecosystem: Insights from genetic diversity, global distribution, and potential function.Marine environmental research · 2022
- Chitin degradation by Synechococcus WH7803.Scientific reports · 2023
- Biotechnological Applications of Cyanobacteria: Synechocystis and Synechococcus Strains.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025
- Marine Synechococcus picocyanobacteria: Light utilization across latitudes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Introduction
- Pigments
- Phylogeny
- Taxonomy
- Accepted framework
- GTDB framework
- Ecology and distribution
- DNA recombination, repair and replication
- Species
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|224px| Transmission electron micrograph showing a species of the cyanobacteria Synechococcus. The carboxysomes appear as polyhedral dark structures.
Synechococcus (from the Greek synechos, in succession, and the Greek kokkos, granule) is a unicellular cyanobacterium that is very widespread in the marine environment. Its size varies from 0.8 to 1.5 μm. The photosynthetic coccoid cells are preferentially found in well–lit surface waters where it can be very abundant (generally 1,000 to 200,000 cells per ml). Many freshwater species of Synechococcus have also been described.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Synechococcus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.