Fig. 7. A – 18S in A Hotspot of Amoebae Diversity: 8 New Naked Amoebae Associated with the Planktonic Bloom-forming Cyanobacterium Microcystis

Fig. 7. A – 18S rDNA maximum likelihood phylogeny of Cochliopodium, including the Microcystis-associated strain (in bold). ML bootstrap values respectively posterior probabilities are shown at the nodes. GenBank accession numbers are given together with the species names. B – LM pictures of locomotive amoebae clearly showing the surrounding hyaline sheet (black arrows) punctuated with microscales (best visible in 8), a few small subpseudopodia (black arrowheads) and trailing adhesive uroidal filaments (white arrows) (1–5), a trophozoite during and just after grazing on Microcystis cells showing a prominent fringe of folded hyaloplasm (white arrowheads) (6–9), the bell-shaped form on colonies of Microcystis aeruginosa (10–11) and floating amoebae (12–13). Scale bars: 20 µm.