Fig. 2. A – 18S in A Hotspot of Amoebae Diversity: 8 New Naked Amoebae Associated with the Planktonic Bloom-forming Cyanobacterium Microcystis

Fig. 2. A – 18S rDNA maximum likelihood phylogeny of Korotnevella, including Microcystis-associated strains (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 K. jeppesenii (strain A1JEPDK) showing trophozoites in non-oriented movement (1–5), during locomotion (6, 8) and during grazing on Microcystis aeruginosa cells (7) with the arrow indicating a lacuna-containing nucleolus. C – LM pictures of K. pelagolacustris (strains A8WVB (7, 12), A16WVB (6, 8, 11), A21WVB (1, 13), A54WVB (3–5) and A1LMS (2, 9, 10)) showing trophozoites in different stages of non-oriented movement (1–4, 6), the locomotive form (8–12), grazing amoebae with Microcystis cells inside food vacuoles (5, 10), the cyst stage (7) and the floating form (13). Arrows indicate the nucleus with clearly visible nucleolus (in 8, 10, 12). Scale bars: 20 µm.