Domain Eukaryota Order Glaucocystales Genus Cyanophora Rank Species | Class Glaucophyceae Family Glaucocystaceae Scientific name Cyanophora paradoxa | |
Similar Glaucophyte, Cyanidioschyzon merolae, Mesostigma, Paulinella, Chlorarachniophyte |
Motility of cyanophora paradoxa in varying light intensities
Cyanophora paradoxa is a freshwater species of Glaucophyte that is used as a model organism. C. paradoxa has two cyanelles or chloroplasts where nitrogen fixation occurs alongside the primary function of photosynthesis. Cyanelles are unusual organelles in that they retain a rudimentary peptidoglycan wall. The cyanelle genome of C. paradoxa strain LB 555 was sequenced and published in 1995. The nuclear genome was also sequenced and published in 2012.
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The effect of different wavelengths on cyanophora paradoxa
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