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organellar chromatophore +  
A bacteroid-containing symbiosome in which the bacterial component is a genetically highly reduced cyanobacterium that is photosynthetically active and incapable of an independent existence outside its host. The chromatophore functions as a photosynthetic organelle, and has been found and characterized in the amoeba Paulinella chromatophora.
peribacteroid fluid 
peribacteroid membrane +  

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: Paulinella-type chromatophore
Definition Sources: GOC:expert_mm, PMID:18356055

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