Polarella glacialis Montresor, Procaccini et Stoecker
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 78.5978°N -74.4992°W Canadian Coast Guard Ice Breaker Pierre Radisson | ||||
| Ocean | Arctic | ||||
| Sea | Baffin Bay | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Lovejoy,C | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Lovejoy,C | ||||
| Isolated Date | |||||
| Identified By | |||||
| Deposited By | Lovejoy,C | ||||
| Deposit Date | 07/20/2001 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | GymWC006 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 12/27/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | from the water column, 6Meters, using a Rosette sampler | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Cold Water | ||||
| 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) | 2 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 0 - 6 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 14 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 18 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 8 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 10 |
New daughter set created every five weeks
Daughter set……….…7umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….5umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….11umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
PCR-based diversity estimates of artificial and environmental 18S rRNA gene libraries (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21462550/)
Bipolar distribution of the cyst-forming dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-002-0473-9)
Antarctic distribution, pigment and lipid composition, and molecular identification of the brine dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis (Dinophyceae) (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.03169.x)