Morphological features of the species of the genus Chlamydomonas s.l. (Chlorophyta) from various molecular clades

Abstract

Maria N. Pavlovska, Igor Yu. Kostikov

The morphology of 78 authentic strains from 5 clades into culture condition was investigated. The complex of phenotype features was established. Such features as: type of mucilage and their origin, mucilage collapse under methylene blue, saving papilla and stigma in not motile stage, extracellular matrix formation inside cell wall, the way of sporangium break, pyrenoid and stigma habit before cell division, cell shape, chloroplast morphology. Diagnostic features for determination of taxa on clades level are discussed.