Thalassiosira weissflogii (Hustedt) Hasle et Heimdal
| Common Name | centric diatom | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 37°N -65°W Gulf Stream, between Bermuda and New York (very approx) | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Hargraves,P | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Hargraves,P | ||||
| Isolated Date | 12/01/1969 | ||||
| Identified By | von Dassow,P | ||||
| Deposited By | Hargraves,P | ||||
| Deposit Date | |||||
| Strain Synonyms | S78 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 03/04/2026 | ||||
| Other Information | oceanic | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Temperate | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | Yes | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 |
| Other Reported Growth Media | f/2 |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 14 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 11 - 16 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 13 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 18 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 10 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 12 |
There is no cryopreservation record for this strain
New daughter set created every four weeks
Daughter set……….…25umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….7umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Physiological adjustments and transcriptome reprogramming are involved in the acclimation to salinity gradients in diatoms (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27236063/)
Potential of lipid metabolism in marine diatoms for biofuel production (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25763104/)
Thalassiosira spp. community composition shifts in response to chemical and physical forcing in the northeast Pacific Ocean (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24065961/)