gracilis, portrait
Description:
Asteromonas (ass-tear-owe-moan-ass) gracilis, a volvocalean green alga - a group more usually associated with freshwater habitats. With grass green chloroplast with cup-shape (mostly located at base of cells but extending up along the sides), two polar flagella, and starch-enclosed pyrenoid appearing as a disc near posterior end. Cell usually with 6 surface ridges. Differential interference microscopy.
data on this strain.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Archaeplastida (plants)
- Chloroplastida (green plants)
- Chlorophyta (chlorophytes)
- Chlorophyceae
- Chlamydomonadales
- Asteromonadaceae
- Asteromonas
- Asteromonas gracilis
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