Publication details
Light and electron microscope studies of Asterocapsa salina, spec. nova (Cyanophyta/Cyanoprokaryota).
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 164 Algological Studies |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Microbiology, virology |
| Keywords | asterocapsa; life cycle; colonial cyanophytes; cyanobacteria; new species; salt lake; tunisia |
| Description | A new species of the genus Asterocapsa CHU, A. salina is described, based on morphological and ecological criteria. The samples thereof were collected from a sand pool bank on the dry salt lake Chott-el-Djerib in the Sahara desert, Tunisia. The species differs from all other so far established ones by growing in solitary cells not forming colonies, enclosed by an yellowish-brown, irregularly ragged sheath and by its adaptation to a hypersaline habitat. |