Alexandrium lusitanicum Balech
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 39.3333°N -9.1666°W Laguna Obidos, Portugal (lat long approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | Europe | ||||
| Collected By | |||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | de Sousa,Estela | ||||
| Isolated Date | |||||
| Identified By | |||||
| Deposited By | Milligan,A and Taylor,FJR | ||||
| Deposit Date | 02/23/1999 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | NEPCC253R | ||||
| 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 | f/2-Si, K, L1 - Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 14 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 11 - 16 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | |
| Cell Length (Max) | 19 |
| Cell Width (Min) | |
| Cell Width (Max) | 17 |
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:
Differential feeding by common heterotrophic protists on 12 different Alexandrium species (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30196918/)