Alexandrium fundyense Balech
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Collection Site | 43.1°N -70.782°W Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Gulf of Maine | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Kulis,D | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Anderson,D | ||||
| Isolated Date | 01/11/1985 | ||||
| Identified By | Balech,E | ||||
| Deposited By | Anderson,D | ||||
| Deposit Date | 11/11/1995 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | GTCA28 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 10/06/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine, Temperate | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | L1 - Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 14 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 8 - 21 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 30 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 40 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 30 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 40 |
New daughter set created every four weeks
Daughter set……….…26umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….50umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….33umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Effects on larval crabs of exposure to algal toxin via ingestion of heterotrophic prey (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-010-1572-8)
Allelopathic inhibition of competing phytoplankton by North American strains of the toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense: Evidence from field experiments, laboratory experiments, and bloom events (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568988311000904)
Formal revision of the Alexandrium tamarense species complex (Dinophyceae) taxonomy: the introduction of five species with emphasis on molecular-based (rDNA) classification (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25460230/)
Paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins induce xenobiotic metabolising enzymes in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11460736/)
Identification of bacteria associated with dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae) Alexandrium spp. using tyramide signal amplification-fluorescent in situ hybridization and confocal microscopy (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1529-8817.2002.01045.x)