Fig. 4. A – 18S in A Hotspot of Amoebae Diversity: 8 New Naked Amoebae Associated with the Planktonic Bloom-forming Cyanobacterium Microcystis

Fig. 4. A – 18S rDNA maximum likelihood phylogeny of the family Hartmannellidae, including Microcystis-associated strains of Copromyxa (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 C. microcystidis showing locomotive trophozoites (1–7, 10) containing a pronounced hyaline cap (white arrowheads), a vesicular nucleus with globular nucleolus (white arrows), big crystals (black arrows) and Microcystis cells inside food vacuoles (black arrowheads), non-oriented moving trophozoites (8–9, 11), a grazing amoeba capturing a Microcystis cell (12–14), the floating form (15) and a double-walled cyst stage (16). C – LM pictures of C. vandevyveri showing locomotive trophozoites (1, 6–9), trophozoites during non-oriented movement (2–5, 10–12) and floating forms (13–15). Black arrows indicate the presence of small, refractive crystals in the cytoplasm, the white arrow shows the vesicular nucleus with a globular lacuna-containing nucleolus, white arrowheads indicate a pronounced hyaline cap. Ingested Microcystis cells are visible in (9) and (11). Scale bars: 20 µm.