Discovery of Prochlorococcus
Chisholm and colleagues described a new free-living prochlorophyte that is abundant in the sunlit (euphotic) zone of the open ocean.
As reported in: Chisholm, Olson, Zettler et al. (1988). A novel free-living prochlorophyte abundant in the oceanic euphotic zone. Nature. doi:10.1038/334340a0
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