Amphidinium carterae Hulburt
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 41.56°N -70.583°W Falmouth Great Pond, Falmouth, Massachusetts USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Nantucket Sound | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Guillard,R | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Guillard,R | ||||
| Isolated Date | 09/01/1954 | ||||
| Identified By | Guillard,R | ||||
| Deposited By | Guillard,R | ||||
| Deposit Date | |||||
| Strain Synonyms | AMPHI, AMPHI1, NEPCC32, ATCC30829 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 03/04/2026 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine, Warm Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | Yes | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | f/2-Si, K |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 24 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 13 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 12 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 18 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 9 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 13 |
The time required to regrow this culture, prior shipping, is approximately 24 days. If interested, please contact the CCMP for the cryopreservation methods (freezing and/or thawing protocols).
Note that aquaculture strains are always maintained as actively growing cultures, even if also cryogenically stored. Therefore, aquaculture strains (see aquaculture express ordering on the CCMP home page) can be shipped immediately upon request.
New daughter set created every two weeks at 30uL into 18mL
Daughter set……….…40umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…42umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set…….16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Light backscattering properties of marine phytoplankton: relationships to cell size, chemical composition and taxonomy (https://academic.oup.com/plankt/article/26/2/191/1490132)
The elemental composition of some marine phytoplankton (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0022-3646.2003.03-090.x)
Linear discriminant analysis of single-cell fluorescence excitation spectra of five phytoplankton species (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1366/11-06294)
Characterization of acetyl-CoA carboxylases in the basal dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28587129/)
Effect of acidification on preservation of DMSP in seawater and phytoplankton cultures: Evidence for rapid loss and cleavage of DMSP in samples containing Phaeocystis sp (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304420310001386)
The decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by marine phytoplankton (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399178402000063)
Effect of dead phytoplankton cells on the apparent efficiency of photosystem II (https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v382/p35-40/)
Irradiance and the elemental stoichiometry of marine phytoplankton (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2690)
Phylogenetic diversity in cadmium:phosphorus ratio regulation by marine phytoplankton (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.2007.52.3.1131)