FIGURE 1 in A case of taxonomic inflation in coccoid algae: Ellipsoidion parvum and Neocystis vischeri are conspecific with Neocystis (=Nephrodiella) brevis (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae)

FIGURE 1: Comparison of the ITS2 sequences and predicted secondary structures of Neocystis brevis and Neocystis mucosa. Base numbering is indicated every 10 bases, and the four helices are numbered with Roman numerals. The structure shown corresponds to N. brevis; positions conserved in N. mucosa are portrayed in green, bases substituted in N. mucosa are shown by the structure and connected to the respective position by a short line, insertions and deletions are indicated with plus and minus symbols, respectively. The base pair marked in a grey box is a compensatory base change (CBC). The highly conserved U–U mismatch in the helix II and UGGU motif in the helix III (Schultz et al. 2005) are marked by arrows.