During three visits to Disko Bay, West Greenland, we found four different types of prymnesiophyte flagellates with heterococcoliths from species of the genera Papposphaera Tangen and Pappomonas Manton and Oates in characteristic and consistent combinations with holococcoliths from species of the genera Turrisphaera Manton, Sutherland, and Oates and Trigonaspis Thomsen. We conclude that several taxa previously considered to be autonomous species are, in fact, part of life histories combining hetero‐ and holococcolithophorid forms in a manner somewhat similar to that known from studies of cultured strains of Coccolithus pelagicus (Wallich) Schiller and Crystallolithus hyalinus (Gaarder) Markali. Similarly, Calciarcus Manton, Sutherland and Oates and Wigwamma Manton, Sutherland and Oates also may be alternate phases of a coccolithophorid life history.

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Articles you may be interested inThe microwave spectrum and structure of the pyridine-CO complex

A number of deuterated pyrroles have been prepared and their microwave spectra recorded. For each isotopic species the two 1→2 transitions observable around 20 000 MHz were localized together with a number of Q-lines in the 17 400—26 000 MHz region scanned. For all isotopic molecules rotational constants were calculated. In this way seven mutually independent numerical data were obtained which is insufficient for a direct calculation of the nine geometrical parameters of pyrrole. Additional assumptions as to the length of the two C, H bonds lead to definite models for pyrrole.

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