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Prochlorococcus_marinus

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ABS compliance

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ABS status: Compliant without conditions
ABS compliance details: No ABS permit needed : sampled pre-NP (no national legislation)
IDENTITY

Prochlorococcus_marinus

Domain: 
Bacteria
Division: 
Cyanophyta
Class: 
Cyanophyceae
Order: 
Synechococcales
Family: 
Prochloraceae
Genus: 
Prochlorococcus
Clade: 
Low Light - LLII-III
Strain name: 
SS120-04/95
Strain name synonyms: 
NIES-2880
Authentic culture: 
STATUS
Clonal: 
Axenic: 
Pure: 
Heterotrophic: 
Toxic: 
Symbiotic: 
Transformed: 
MORPHOLOGY
Cell shape: 
coccoid
Length: 
0.60
Cell motility: 
non-motile
ORIGIN
Sampling ocean: 
Atlantic Ocean
Sampling regional sea: 
Sargasso Sea
Sampling country: 
Bermuda
Sampling ecosystem: 
pelagic
Sampling depth (m): 
120
Sampling date: 
Monday, May 30, 1988
Isolation by: 
Palenik B.
CULTURE CONDITIONS
RCC medium: 
PCR-S11-Red Sea
RCC temperature: 
20.00
RCC transfer period weeks: 
2.00
RCC light: 
20
Phenotype pigment: 
Pro high b/a
Remark: 
This is our reference strain for Prochlorococcus SS120. Genome sequenced by Genoscope.

Associated references

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Marie D, Rigaut-Jalabert F, Vaulot D.  2014.  An improved protocol for flow cytometry analysis of phytoplankton cultures and natural samples. Cytometry. 85:962–968. PDF icon Download pdf (545.78 KB)
Doré H, Farrant GK, Guyet U, Haguait J, Humily F, Ratin M, Pitt FD, Ostrowski M, Six C, Brillet-Guéguen L et al..  2020.  Evolutionary mechanisms of long-term genome diversification associated with niche partitioning in marine picocyanobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11:1–23. PDF icon Download pdf (13.44 MB)
Soitamo A, Havurinne V, Tyystjärvi E.  2017.  Photoinhibition in marine picocyanobacteria. Physiologia Plantarum. 161:97–108.
Delmont TO, A. Eren M.  2018.  Linking pangenomes and metagenomes: the Prochlorococcus metapangenome. PeerJ. 6:e4320. PDF icon Download pdf (10.22 MB)
Domínguez-Martín MAgustina, Gómez-Baena G, Díez J, López-Grueso MJosé, Beynon RJ, García-Fernández JManuel.  2017.  Quantitative proteomics shows extensive remodeling induced by nitrogen limitation in prochlorococcus marinus SS120. mSystems. 2:e00008–17. PDF icon Download pdf (3.74 MB)