Lingulodinium polyedra (Stein) Dodge
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 32.9°N -117.255°W Scripps Institute of Oceanography, pier, La Jolla, California USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Pacific | ||||
| Sea | California Bight | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | |||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Hastings and Sweeney,B | ||||
| Isolated Date | 01/01/1960 | ||||
| Identified By | |||||
| Deposited By | Guillard,R | ||||
| Deposit Date | 02/14/2001 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | CCMP405, GP60E | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 01/05/2026 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | Yes | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | f/2-Si, L1 - Si, Prov |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 22 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 30 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 40 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 36 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 40 |
New daughter set created every two weeks at 1mL from column into 18mL
Daughter set……….…43umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Use of fluorescein diacetate (FDA) as a single-cell probe of metabolic activity in dinoflagellate cultures (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01965581.1988.10749548)