New species of Oculatella (Synechococcales, Cyanobacteria) from terrestrial habitats of Ukraine
Journal: Ukrainian Botanical Journal
Year: 2017

Here we describe two new species of Oculatella Zammit, Billi & Albertano from terrestrial habitats of Ukraine: O. ucrainica sp. nov. and O. kazantipica sp. nov. The strains were isolated from biological crusts collected at the Sea of Azov conqina beach, and both clay slopes and chalk outcrops in the Kharkiv Region. Five strains evaluated in this study phenotypically and phylogenetically differed both among each other and from other species of this genus. On the phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRN