Notes on Tow 6/3 P-16w

4/16/02

Culture started 3/26/02, WH

Spherical coccoid with numerous refractile granules in constant motion in cells.

Multiple plastids w/o pyrenoids. Typically 4 autospores. In large clumps of mucilage.

Xanthophyte by 18S rDNA sequence analysis.  Gloeobotrys sp.