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Anabaena (ann-a-bean-ah) (tentative identification) filaments with heterocysts and cells of variable size. Differential interference contrast. This image taken by Michele Bahr and David Patterson of material collected from the water column and the margins of Lake Toolik (Alaska, USA) in August, 2001. Image copyright: Michele Bahr and D. J. Patterson, used under license to MBL (micro*scope).

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Anabaena

From the collection Lake Toolik, Arctic Alaska

Description of Anabaena: Filamentous, the filaments (trichomes) may be coiled or straight, with occasional heterocysts. Terminal cells of trichomes may or may not be narrowed. Ticker walled akinetes may also form. The trichomes may (rare) or may not be encaused in mucilage.

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Anabaena in other collections

Anabaena, from Plum Island, Massachusetts coast, USA	Anabaena, from Microbes of Convict Lake	Anabaena, from Microbes of Convict Lake	Anabaena, from Microbes of Mammoth Lake	Anabaena, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps
Anabaena, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Anabaena cylindrica, from Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps	Anabaena, from Athens, Georgia, USA	Anabaena, from Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP)	Anabaena, from Freshwater microbes - NW Australia
Anabaena, from Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP)

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