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Prototheca wickerhamii
About
Prototheca wickerhamii is a ubiquitous green alga that does not have chlorophyll. It is widely present in the environment but is a cause of a rare opportunistic infection in humans and livestock known as protothecosis.
- Family
- Chlorellaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Prototheca wickerhamii
- Slug
- prototheca-wickerhamii
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Chlorellaceae
- Genus
- Prototheca
- Species
- wickerhamii
- Wikidata QID
- Q2113785
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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