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Journal of Plankton Research, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbi007
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Received November 30, 2004
Accepted February 21, 2005

Article

Distribution of the cyanobacterium Richelia intracellularis as an epiphyte of the diatom Chaetoceros compressus in the western Pacific Ocean

Fernando Gómez 1*, Ken Furuya 2, and Shigenobu Takeda 2

1 Station Marine de Wimereux, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, CNRS-UMR 8013 Elico, 28 Avenue Foch, BP 80, F-62930 Wimereux, France
2 Department of Aquatic Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Fernando Gómez, E-mail: fernando.gomez{at}fitoplancton.com


  Abstract

The few available records on the association of the diazotroph heterocystous cyanobacterium Richelia intracellularis epiphytically on Chaetoceros compressus are restricted to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, whereas the association of R. intracellularis as an endosymbiont in other diatoms is ubiquitous in warm oceans. From ten cruises in the western Pacific Ocean, the Richelia- Chaetoceros consortia were exclusively observed in the periphery of the geographic proliferations of C. compressus, coinciding with the overlapping area of the populations of asymbiotic C. compressus and R. intracellularis as an endosymbiont in Rhizosolenia clevei


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