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Iwane Suzuki and Makoto M. Watanabe for the use of their laboratory facilities. We
also thank Katherine Cook and David Hambright for providing the raw data of their
work on worldwide Microcystis blooms. This work is partly supported by Nextgeneration Energies for Tohoku recovery (NET) from Reconstruction Agency.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
YT designed the research, YT performed isolation, culture, light microscopy, pigment,
whole genome, and bioinformatics analyses, HY performed NGS, MY and AK
performed electron microscopy, YO performed CARD-FISH and 16S amplicon
analyses, YT and YO wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final
manuscript.
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The authors declare no competing interests.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank Nanda Kyaw Thu for the isolation of BOTRYCO-1, Mina Nomizu for the
guidance of TEM sample preparation, Masahiro Koide for taking video images, and
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