Alexandrium tamarense (Lebour) Balech
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 50.36°N -4.15°W Tamar Estuary, Plymouth, England, United Kingdom (lat long approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | English Channel | ||||
| Nearest Continent | Europe | ||||
| Collected By | |||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Adams,I | ||||
| Isolated Date | 06/24/1957 | ||||
| Identified By | |||||
| Deposited By | Green,J | ||||
| Deposit Date | 07/25/1985 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | PLY173, NEPCC183, Tamar strain; CCMP1771 is the axenic reisolate | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 03/15/2018 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | nontoxic | ||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Temperate | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | Erd-Schreiber, f/2-Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 14 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 11 - 22 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 36 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 44 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 36 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 40 |
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…58umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…25umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….26umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
The cost of toxin production in phytoplankton: the case of PST producing dinoflagellates (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-018-0250-6)
Formal revision of the Alexandrium tamarense species complex (Dinophyceae) taxonomy: the introduction of five species with emphasis on molecular-based (rDNA) classification (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25460230/)
Development of specific rRNA probes to distinguish between geographic clades of the Alexandrium tamarense species complex (https://academic.oup.com/plankt/article/27/2/199/1579635)
Phospholipid-derived fatty acids as chemotaxonomic markers for phytoplankton: application for inferring phytoplankton composition (https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v324/p113-125/)
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)
Alexandrium tamutum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): a new nontoxic species in the genus Alexandrium (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.03060.x)
Effects of the toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense on three species of larval fish: a food chain approach (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01698.x)