Mougeotia

…The body is made up of a row of thin, tubular cells connected together, each of which contains a spiral-shaped chloroplast. Other species with similar shapes include Zygnema , which has star-shaped chloroplasts, and Mougeotia , which has plate-shaped chloroplasts. Sexual reproduction in this species is called conjugation, in which the contents of one cell move through a conjugation tube formed between two cells and combine with the contents of the other cell. …

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…体は細い管状の細胞が1列に連結してできており，細胞内にらせん形の葉緑体をもつ。形状の似た仲間に星状の葉緑体をもつホシミドロ属Zygnema，板状の葉緑体をもつヒザオリMougeotiaがある。この仲間の有性生殖はいわゆる接合で，2個の細胞間にできた接合管を通って一方の細胞の内容物が移動して他方の細胞内容物と合体する。…

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