{"id":1611,"date":"2023-11-20T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/?page_id=1611"},"modified":"2023-11-20T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:46:05","slug":"definitions-of-common-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/definitions-of-common-characteristics\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitions of Common Characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"html-content\">\n<h5>(click on each term to see a list of organisms commonly found with that characteristic):<\/h5>\n<div>\n<ul id=\"char_list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/organisms-with-aerotopes\/\">Aerotope<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Gas vesicle<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/organisms-with-akinetes\/\">Akinete<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Thick-walled enveloped cell, often granular in appearance, exclusive to heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria; Can be indicative of age and environmental conditions<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/organisms-with-colonies\/\">Colony<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Loose to dense aggregation or conglomeration of the same organism (as opposed to a mat, which is composed of a variety of organisms)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/organisms-with-heterocysts\/\">Heterocyst<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Differentiated cell associated with nitrogen fixation, often unpigmented and lacking the granular pattern found in akinetes<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/organisms-with-sheaths\/\">Sheath<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Extracellular polysaccharide and\/or mucilaginous secretion that envelopes specific cyanobacterial filaments<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hormogonia:<\/strong>\u00a0A motile dispersal form of a filamentous cyanobacteria<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/organisms-with-mats\/\">Mat<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Loose to dense community, aggregation, or conglomeration that may include a variety of organisms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"html-content\">\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>To go back to the complete cyanobacteria list, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cyanobacteria-guide\/cyanobacteria\/\">here<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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