Alexandrium tamarense (Lebour) Balech
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Collection Site | 22.3°N 114.3°W Da-ya Bay Guan-dong (Canton) Province, bay west of Hong Kong Island, China | ||||
| Ocean | North Pacific | ||||
| Sea | China Sea | ||||
| Nearest Continent | Asia | ||||
| Collected By | Gires,U | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | |||||
| Isolated Date | 08/01/1991 | ||||
| Identified By | Balech,E and Moestrup,O | ||||
| Deposited By | Anderson,D | ||||
| Deposit Date | 07/21/1992 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | ATCI01, CCMP1598 is the axenic reisolate | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 10/18/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | cyst germination, not clonal | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | f/2-Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 22 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 36 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 38 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 34 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 36 |
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…43umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…14umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….14umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Physical and immunoaffinity extraction of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins from cultures of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568988311000382)
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)
Mixotrophy in the phototrophic dinoflagellate Takayama helix (family Kareniaceae): Predator of diverse toxic and harmful dinoflagellate (https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568988316302712)
Electrochemical detection of harmful algae and other microbial contaminants in coastal waters using hand-held biosensors (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17328925/)