FIGURE 2 in A case of taxonomic inflation in coccoid algae: Ellipsoidion parvum and Neocystis vischeri are conspecific with Neocystis (=Nephrodiella) brevis (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae)

FIGURE 2: Morphometric characteristics of Neocystis strains. a) Visualisation of the multivariate regression model illustrating the relation of the shape and size of cells in the entire investigated dataset. b) The PCA ordination plot based on geometric morphometric data illustrating mean positions of individual strains and their standard deviations on PC1 (spanning 65.9% of the variation) and PC2 (23.2%). The theoretical cell shapes of marginal morphospace positions were reconstructed from the landmark coordinates of the original data.