Karenia brevis (Davis) Hansen et Moestrup
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 27.3689°N -82.5825°W Mote Marine Laboratory's New Pass Dock, Sarasota,Florida USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Gulf of Mexico, Sarasota Bay | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Higham,C | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Higham,C | ||||
| Isolated Date | 08/09/2001 | ||||
| Identified By | Mote Marine Laboratory's Center for Eco-toxicology | ||||
| Deposited By | Higham,CJ | ||||
| Deposit Date | 11/19/2002 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | New Pass Clone | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 12/18/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | collected from surface. Water temperature 29^C, salinity 36ppt, irradiance 1100PAR | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine, Warm Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | f/2-Si, L1 - Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 24 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 22 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 24 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 28 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 18 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 22 |
New daughter set created every two weeks
Daughter set……….…40umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…42umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set…….16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Microspectroscopy of the photosynthetic compartment of algae (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17205627/)
Most harmful algal bloom species are vitamin B1 and B12 auxotrophs (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1009566107)
Chemical defense of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis against rotifer grazing (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.2007.52.3.1026)
Does the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis use allelopathy to outcompete other phytoplankton? (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.2005.50.3.0883)
Effects of harmful algal blooms on competitors: allelopathic mechanisms of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.2008.53.2.0531)