A New Morphological Type of Volvox from Japanese Large Lakes and Recent Divergence of this Type and V. ferrisii in Two Different Freshwater Habitats.

Volvox sect. Volvox is characterized by having unique morphological characteristics, such as thick cytoplasmic bridges between adult somatic cells in the spheroids and spiny zygote walls. Species of this section are found from various freshwater habitats. Recently, three species of Volvox sect. Volv...

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Main Authors: Hisayoshi Nozaki, Noriko Ueki, Nanako Isaka, Tokiko Saigo, Kayoko Yamamoto, Ryo Matsuzaki, Fumio Takahashi, Ken-Ichi Wakabayashi, Masanobu Kawachi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5120847?pdf=render