Hi;
I would to throw in my $0.02 worth. Prototheca is thought to be related
to green algae, although it is achlorophyllous--lacks chlorophyll.
Because of this lack of chlorophyll, it has been included with the yeasts
because colonially and morphologically it resembles a yeast. It has been
known to cause human disease. It is an eukaryote and therefore not a
bacterium.
Hope that this helps.
Michael
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On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, ed marsden wrote:
> Weismm wrote:
> >
> > I've got duplicate slides labelled as follows: Prototheca wickerhamii and
> > Probetheca wickerhomii. I've looked in numerous textbooks for a spelling
> > to no avail. Can anyone help?
> >
> > My suspicion is that someone in transcribing the name sloppily transcribed
> > the be to a to or visa versa and the o to an a in the species. However, no
> > book that I have consulted has a genus that matches either.
>> >>>>>I don't know if this will help but my University text lists an algae (green) by the name Prototheca. I could not find a listing
> corresponding to Probetheca. Probably a spelling error.
>> -Neil
>>
