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Observations on Mougeotia spec.

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Mougeotia C.Agardh, 1824, nom. cons.

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 05/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1, 2), 25 µm (3).

Three images.

First and second:	Overviews.
Third:	Close-up of a single cell showing chloroplast, storage grains and the cell nucleus.

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Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 05/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1, 2), 25 µm (3).

Three images.

First and second:	Overviews.
Third:	Close-up of two cells that are about to begin the conjugation process.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 10/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Three images.

First:	Filament shortly after starting observation.
Second:	After a longer observation time, the chloroplasts react to the too intense light exposure and rotate perpendicular to the direction of the light.
Third:	Single cell showing the chloroplast with four pyrenoids and the cell nucleus.
Fourth:	Cells that had started the conjugation process with parasites (bright spheres).

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Place name: Pond near the Bodden bay Schwarzer Peter, Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea)
Latitude: 54.514946 Longitude: 13.082471

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 06/2011. Scale bar indicates 100 µm.

Zygotes as results of conjugation processes.

Place name: Wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.531785 Longitude: 12.573095

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ.

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