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Zoochlorella (Chlorophyceae)

Zoochlorella as endobionts in Paramecium bursa.
Modified from an image at protist.i.hosei.ac.jp

Zoochlorella as endobionts in a ciliate.
Modified from an image by Wim von Egmond at microscopy-uk.org.uk

Zoochlorella cells as endobionts in a ciliate
Image by Carol Elliott, University of New Hampshire, USA

Zoochlorella as endobionts of Lake Baikal sponges. Modirifed from an image at aslo.org_photopost.

Zoochlorella as endobionts in Hydra.
Modified from an image by ©G.P. Mathews at gpmatthews.nildram.co.uk

Zoochlorella
Two different symbiotic cells extracted from a single host cell of Paramecium bursaria, Chlorella-like (left) and Coccomyxa-like (right).
( Proschold et al. 2010)

Pröschold, T., T. Darienko, P.C. Silva, W. Reisser and L. Krienitz. 2010. The systematic of Zoochlorella revisited employing an integrative approach. Environmental Microbiology 13(2):350-364.

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