Heterosigma akashiwo (Y.Hada) Y.Hada ex Y.Hara & M.Chihara
| Common Name | chloromonads | ||||
| Collection Site | 33.7833°N -118.3167°W mouth of the Los Angeles River, Long Beach, California USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Pacific | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Gregorio,D | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Andersen,RA | ||||
| Isolated Date | 10/22/1998 | ||||
| Identified By | Connell,L | ||||
| Deposited By | Gregorio,D | ||||
| Deposit Date | 01/15/1999 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | A9135 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 01/05/2026 | ||||
| Other Information | collected at a salinity of 25, pH7.6, temperatature of 17.5^C in a "Red Tide"event | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | flagellate | ||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine | ||||
| 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) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 7 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 8 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 12 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 16 |
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…58umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…25umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….26umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Porticoccus hydrocarbonoclasticus sp. nov., an aromatic hydrocarbon- degrading bacterium identified in laboratory cultures of marine phytoplankton (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3264135/)
Comparative analysis of two algicidal bacteria active against the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S156898830800019X)
Development of real-time PCR assays for the detection of Chattonella species in culture and environmental samples (https://works.bepress.com/torstein/21/)