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Living populations of Gymnodinium baicalense Ant. from Lake Baikal were studied. It has been shown that G. baicalense var. minor Ant. is a life stage of G. baicalense, whose species size is smaller than it is given in the diagnosis. Morphology of the living vegetative cells of G. baicalense is close to that of G. wigrense Wolosz. These species share ecological features. The vegetative cells form endogenous resting cysts. The sexual reproduction takes place in the period of the mass development of the species. The author believes that it is a relict species, which formed in the Ice age.
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Original Russian Text © G.I. Kobanova, 2009, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 899–905.
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Kobanova, G.I. Morphology and life cycle of Gymnodinium baicalense Ant. (Dinophyceae) from Lake Baikal. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 2, 581–585 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425509060150
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