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Morphological changes of Euglenophyta in response to organic enrichment

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Phytoplankton and Trophic Gradients

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 129))

Abstract

Euglena acus,Euglena spirogyra, Phacus curvicaudus, Phacus pyrum and Phacus tortus isolated from Matanza River, Buenos Aires, Argentina, were grown in soil-water medium. When transferred to soil-water medium enriched with different beef-extract concentrations, a marked cell deformation could be observed in every instance, owing either to an extraordinary accumulation of paramylon grains or to a great development of some of them. In this paper, these morphological changes are described and their ecological implications are discussed.

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  1. Depto. de Ciencias Biológicas, Faculdad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Ciudad Universitaria, Pab. II, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  1. Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales (CSIC), Serrano 115 dpdo., E-28006, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel Alvarez-Cobelas

  2. NERC Institute of Freshwater Ecology, The Ferry House, GB-LA 22 0LP, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK

    Colin S. Reynolds

  3. Dept. Biología Vegetal, Fac. Ciencias, Univ. Granada, Avda. Fuentenueva s/n., E-18001, Granada, Spain

    Pedro Sánchez-Castillo

  4. Institut for Spøreplanter, Univ. Køvenhavn, Øster Farimagsgade 2D, DK-1353, Køvenhavn, Denmark

    Jørgen Kristiansen

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Conforti, V. (1998). Morphological changes of Euglenophyta in response to organic enrichment. In: Alvarez-Cobelas, M., Reynolds, C.S., Sánchez-Castillo, P., Kristiansen, J. (eds) Phytoplankton and Trophic Gradients. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 129. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2668-9_24

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