heterocyst

BTO:0000600 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

A large transparent thick-walled cell that is found in the filaments of some blue-green algae and is the site of nitrogen fixation. — BTO

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
PREGO	heterocyst	2	TAXON

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool	Corroborated
Nostoc piscinale CENA21 `NCBITaxon:224013`	PREGO	1	2
Nostoc punctiforme PCC 73102 `NCBITaxon:63737`	PREGO	2	2

Also called

heterocysts — PREGO

Provenance

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