Polarella glacialis Montresor, Procaccini et Stoecker
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | -77.8333°N 163°W McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (lat long approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | Southern | ||||
| Sea | Ross Sea (McMurdo Sound) | ||||
| Nearest Continent | Antarctica | ||||
| Collected By | Stoecker,D, Putt, M, and Moisan,T | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Jacobson,D | ||||
| Isolated Date | 06/01/1991 | ||||
| Identified By | Montresor, Procaccini and Stoecker | ||||
| Deposited By | Jacobson,D | ||||
| Deposit Date | 06/01/1991 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | |||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 12/27/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | ice edge | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Cold Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | Prov |
| Other Reported Growth Media | L1 - Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 2 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 0 - 6 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 10 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 15 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 4 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 8 |
New daughter set created every six weeks
Daughter set……….…13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….4umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….8umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Bipolar distribution of the cyst-forming dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-002-0473-9)
Polarella glacialis gen. nov sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): Sussiaceae are still alive! (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.3510186.x)
Antarctic distribution, pigment and lipid composition, and molecular identification of the brine dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis (Dinophyceae) (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.03169.x)
Phaeocystis rex sp. nov. (Phaeocystales, Prymnesiophyceae): a new solitary species that produces a multilayered scale cell covering (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670262.2015.1024287)
Dinoflagellate phylogeny as inferred from heat shock protein 90 and ribosomal gene sequences (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013220)