cyanellen.
/sʌɪəˈnɛl/ Botany.
A cyanobacterium living symbiotically inside the cell of a protozoan or the like.
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1952 Physiol. Rev. 32 415 The most interesting associations occur when the cyanelle (Pascher's term for a cyanophytic endosymbiont) is regulated by the host.
1971 M. Alexander Microbial Ecol. xi. 262 These algae are subdivided on the basis of their color, and one speaks of..cyanellae to designate the algae that are..blue-green.
1983 Nature 28 July 373/1 The intracellular photosynthetic entities (cyanelles) of the protozoan Cyanophora paradoxa..have long been regarded as endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.
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