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Figure 10:
Overview of the main gene clusters involved in nitrogen metabolism and heterocyst development in
Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii
CS-505 and
Raphidiopsis brookii
D9. Transmission electron micrographs in the left panels show
the heterocyst of
C
.
raciborskii
CS-505 and the apically differentiated cell of
R
.
brookii
D9. Optical micrographs on the right
panels exhibit the Alcian blue staining characteristic of polysaccharides in the heterocyst. With the kind permission of
Mónica Vásquez, Department of Molecular Genetic and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontifi cia Universidad
Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile & Millenium Nucleus EMBA, Santiago, Chile. [Stucken
et al
. (2010)
PLoS ONE
5(2):
e9235.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009235] doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009235.g001.
