High dietary quality of non-toxic cyanobacteria for a benthic grazer and its implications for the control of cyanobacterial biofilms

Table 1 The six benthic primary producers used in the experiment together with their cell shape, average biovolume and origin

Species	Origin/strain	Shape	Average biovolume (µm³)
Aphanochaete repens	CCAC/M2227	Sphere	350
Klebsormidium flaccidum	CCAC/2007 B	Cylinder	265
Cylindrospermum sp.	CCAC/1160 B	Cylinder	85
Lyngbya halophila	CCAC/1164 B	Cylinder, two half spheres	60
Navicula sp.	CCAC/1772 B	Prism on eliptic base	185
Nitzschia communis	CCAC/1762 B	Prism on eliptic base	410

The cell-specific biovolumes calculated on basis of the geometric shapes according to [45]. The shell morphology of the primary producer species were estimated as it may impact the ingestion by herbivores

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