RCC894

Picochlorum_sp

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IDENTITY

Picochlorum_sp

Domain: 
Eukaryota
Division: 
Chlorophyta
Class: 
Trebouxiophyceae
Order: 
Chlorellales
Family: 
Chlorellales_X
Genus: 
Picochlorum
Genus synonym: 
Nannochloris
Strain name: 
CCAP 216/18
Authentic culture: 
STATUS
Clonal: 
Axenic: 
Pure: 
Heterotrophic: 
Toxic: 
Symbiotic: 
Transformed: 
MORPHOLOGY
Cell shape: 
coccoid
Length: 
5.00
Cell motility: 
non-motile
ORIGIN
Sampling ocean: 
Atlantic Ocean
Sampling site: 
New Foundland
Sampling country: 
Canada
Sampling station: 
Port au Port Bay
Sampling date: 
Monday, January 1, 1968
Isolation by: 
Stevenson R.N.
CULTURE CONDITIONS
RCC medium: 
f/2
RCC temperature: 
20.00
RCC transfer period weeks: 
8.00
RCC light: 
10
Remark: 
initially identified as Coccomyxa parasitica. However Rodriguez et al. 2008 suggest that the culture was contaminated by Picochlorum that took over.
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Details for RCC staff only
Date entered catalog: 
Friday, February 10, 2006
Identification method: 
sequence
Deposit to RCC date: 
Friday, January 27, 2006
Deposit to rcc by: 
CCAP

Sequences available for this RCC strain

GenBank Accession Gene name Gene location Genbank organism Genbank taxonomy Description
EU127469 18S rRNA nucleus Coccomyxa parasitica Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Chlorophyta; Trebouxiophyceae; Coccomyxaceae; Coccomyxa Coccomyxa parasitica 18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence

Associated references

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Rodriguez F, Feist SW, Guillou L, Harkestad LS, Bateman K, Renault T, Mortensen S.  2008.  Phylogenetic and morphological characterization of the green algae infesting blue mussel Mytilus edulis in the North and South Atlantic. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 81:231–240.