Alexandrium minutum Halim
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 42.23°N -8.8°W Ria de Vigo,Spain (lat long approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | Europe | ||||
| Collected By | Bravo,I | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Bravo,I | ||||
| Isolated Date | 09/01/1987 | ||||
| Identified By | Steidinger,K | ||||
| Deposited By | VIGO | ||||
| Deposit Date | 10/24/1988 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | AL, AL1V | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 05/23/1995 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine, Temperate | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | K, L/20, L/40 + EDTA + 8a, L1 - Si, Prov modified |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 14 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 11 - 21 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 24 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 32 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 20 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 28 |
New daughter set created every four weeks
Daughter set……….…36umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….20umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….15umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Most harmful algal bloom species are vitamin B1 and B12 auxotrophs (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1009566107)
Differential feeding by common heterotrophic protists on 12 different Alexandrium species (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30196918/)
Harmful alga trades off growth and toxicity in response to cues from dead phytoplankton (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lno.11414)
Lipid class distribution of highly unsaturated long chain fatty acids in marine dinoflagellates (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1529-8817.2000.00018.x)
Use of fluorescein diacetate (FDA) as a single-cell probe of metabolic activity in dinoflagellate cultures (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01965581.1988.10749548)