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Science 21 May 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3673, pp. 1094 - 1095
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3673.1094
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Scenedesmus obliquus Sexuality

Francis P. Trainor 1 and Carol Ann Burg 1

1 Department of Botany, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06268

The flagellated cells of two mixed strains of Scenedesmus obliquus can initiate a sexual cycle when grown at 15°C in a defined medium lacking a nitrogen source. Clumps of five to ten cells, paired gametes, plasmogamy, and quadriflagellated zygotes were observed.


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