Prochlorococcus marinus
Description
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…42umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…17umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….…16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Measurement of Prochlorococcus ecotypes using real-time polymerase chain reaction reveals different abundance of genotypes with similar light physiologies (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16478451/)
Nitrate is reduced by heterotrophic bacteria by not transferred to Prochlorococcus in non-axenic cultures (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19709249/)