Petalonema alatum
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petalonema-alatum-297-12778684
title:
Petalonema alatum
text:
Petalonema alatum is a cyanobacterium. It was first described and drawn by the Scottish author Dugald Carmichael under the taxonomic name Oscillatoria allata in 1826. In 1833, Miles Joseph Berkeley re-published it under its current name Petalonema alatum. P. alatum produces a slime-like mucopolysaccharide in the form of interlocking slime funnels. The structure looks like a quill under the light microscope, which is where the species gets its name "alatum", meaning quill. These slime envelopes a
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of bacterium
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petalonema_alatum
date created:
date modified:
2021-10-21T08:54:06Z
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13
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