Karenia brevis (Davis) Hansen et Moestrup
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 27.0171°N -82.4763°W Station VS05(a couple of miles offshore of Manasota Key) Florida, USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Gulf of Mexico | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Pederson,B and Berg,B | ||||
| Collection Date | 08/16/2001 | ||||
| Isolated By | Higham,C | ||||
| Isolated Date | 08/17/2001 | ||||
| Identified By | Mote Marine Laboratory's Center for Eco-toxicology | ||||
| Deposited By | Higham,CJ | ||||
| Deposit Date | 11/19/2002 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | Manasota Key Clone | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 12/18/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | collected at a depth of 4.5 meters, at 1652 GMT. The temperature at collection was 29.85^C,salinity 35.64ppt | ||||
| 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 - 30 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 20 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 28 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 20 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 24 |
Growth rate is 0.28 div/day at 1L
New daughter set created every two weeks at 30uL into 18mL
Daughter set………....50umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set…………...17umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set……13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Growth, uptake, and assimilation of ammonium, nitrate, and urea, by three strains of Karenia brevis grown under low light (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568988309000511)