Chaetoceros affinis Lauder
| Common Name | centric diatom | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 44.57°N -64°W St.Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Gulf of Maine | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Rao,S | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Subba,R | ||||
| Isolated Date | 01/22/1968 | ||||
| Identified By | |||||
| Deposited By | Booth,B | ||||
| Deposit Date | 12/07/1982 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | CCUR | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 10/25/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Temperate | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 |
| Other Reported Growth Media | f/2 |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 14 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 11 - 16 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 15 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 20 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 5 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 7 |
There is no cryopreservation record for this strain
New daughter set created every four weeks at 10uL into 18mL
Daughter set……….…16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….10umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….4umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Sexual and asexual processes in Protoperidinium steidingerae Balech (Dinophyceae), with observations on life-history stages of Protoperidinium depressum (Bailey) Balech (Dinophyceae) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19335779/)
Supplementation of a diatom diet with cholesterol can enhance copepod egg-production rates (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.2004.49.2.0488)
Copepod reproduction is unaffected by diatom aldehydes or lipid composition (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.4319/lo.2008.53.1.0225)