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Organism name
Prochlorococcus marinus                                Find images with Google

NCBI taxonomy ID
Lineage
Description Cyanobacteria  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Prochlorococcus marinus carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

CA00328  Zeaxanthin  (Ref.273)


CA00587  α-Carotene  (Ref.273)


References
  • Ref.273 : Goericke Ralf and Daniel J. Repeta, Limnology and Oceanography Volume 37, Issue 2, pages 425–433, March 1992, "The pigments of Prochlorococcus marinus: The presence of divinylchlorophyll a and b in a marine procaryote"

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