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Using light and scanning electron microscopy the statospore of Mallomonas caudata was described from phytoplankton collected from 9 lakes situated in Southern Sweden. The cysts differed in size to the same degree irrespective of the lake. However, the ultrastructure of the cysts varied both within the population of a lake and between lakes. The implications of this variability for paleoecological studies are briefly discussed.
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Cronberg, G. (1988). Variability in size and ultrastructure of the statospore of Mallomonas caudata . In: Jones, R.I., Ilmavirta, V. (eds) Flagellates in Freshwater Ecosystems. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3097-1_2
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