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GO: Cellular Component
cyanelle
- Term ID
- GO:0009842
- Synonyms
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- cyanoplast
- muroplast
- Definition
- A plastid that contains unstacked, phycobilisome-bearing thylakoid membranes and is surrounded by a double membrane with a peptidoglycan layer in the intermembrane space between the two envelope membranes. Cyanelles are characteristic of algae in the class Glaucophyta, and may represent an ancestral form of plastid. (2)
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- Ontology
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Phenotype
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