Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al.
| Common Name | blue-green algae | ||||
| Collection Site | 30°N -60°W (lat long very approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Sargasso Sea | ||||
| Nearest Continent | Open ocean | ||||
| Collected By | Palenik,B | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Frankel,S and West-Johnsrud,L | ||||
| Isolated Date | 01/01/1991 | ||||
| Identified By | Chisholm,P | ||||
| Deposited By | Chisholm,P | ||||
| Deposit Date | 11/02/1991 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | SS120 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 10/05/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | deep euphotic zone; grown in dim light | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | Yes | ||||
| Morphological Data | size:1.2-1.6uM X 0.6-0.8uM | ||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | Pro99 |
| Other Reported Growth Media | PC |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 14 - 27 °C |
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New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…6umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….7umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….…..9umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Diel patterns of growth and division in marine picoplankton in culture (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1529-8817.2001.037003357.x)
Measurement of Prochlorococcus ecotypes using real-time polymerase chain reaction reveals different abundance of genotypes with similar light physiologies (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16478451/)
Glutamine synthetase from the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp.: characterization, phylogeny and response to nutrient limitation (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12713467/)
Phycoerythrins of the oxyphotobacterium Prochlorococcusmarinus are associated to the thylakoid membrane and are encoded by a single large gene cluster (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10437834/)
Nitrate is reduced by heterotrophic bacteria but not transferred to Prochlorococcus in non-axenic cultures (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19709249/)
Photophysiology of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus: Ecotypic differences among cultured isolates (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.1999.44.3.0628)
Comparative physiology of Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus : Influence of light and temperature on growth, pigments, fluorescence, and absorptive properties (https://www.jstor.org/stable/44635011)
Complementation of a phycocyanin-bilin lyase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with a nucleomorph-encoded reading frame from the cryptophyte Guillardia theta (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18485196/)
Light-harvesting antenna function of phycoerythrin in Prochlorococcus marinus (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10076020/)
Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al. 1992 subsp. pastoris subsp. nov. strain PCC 9511, the first axenic chlorophyll a2/b2-containing cyanobacterium (Oxyphotobacteria) (https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-50-5-1833)