Robin Richardson-Coy

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Does anyone know of a green algae that has cell structure like mougeotia but has branches?

I have algae in a sample from a freshwater lake. There are several single filaments that I thought were mougeotia because of the shape of the cell wall and the twisted chloroplasts. I have...

04 August 2015 7,934 5 View

Has anyone used sonication on benthic algae/sediment samples and if so, did it only separate the cells or did it damage them beyond identification?

I have periphyton samples that also contain sediment/sand. Some of the samples have green clumps made up of sand and algae (greens, cyanobacteria and diatoms) all held together by pectin. These...

13 August 2014 7,060 10 View

Does anyone have tips for filtering periphyton samples using a Millipore 1225 filtration manifold?

I have samples of periphyton that I've scrubbed from rocks. I am trying to filter them and my filtration manifold is a Millipore 1225 sampling manifold (it looks like a blue barrel with 12...

24 May 2014 6,342 3 View