Karenia brevis (Davis) Hansen et Moestrup
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Collection Site | 30.38°N -86.86°W Gulf of Mexico between Pensacola Beach, Florida and Navarre, Florida, USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Gulf of Mexico | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | |||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Rogers,John | ||||
| Isolated Date | |||||
| Identified By | Rogers,John and Leb lond,Jeff | ||||
| Deposited By | Eaton,Richard | ||||
| Deposit Date | 02/27/2003 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | JR1RE | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 03/15/2025 | ||||
| Other Information | collected from a bloom | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine, Warm Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | Yes | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | L1 - Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 24 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 28 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 32 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 16 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 28 |
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…33umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…20umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set…….11umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
High variability in cellular stoichiometry of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus within classes of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton under sufficient nutrient concentrations (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5880891/)
Effect of acidification on preservation of DMSP in seawater and phytoplankton cultures: Evidence for rapid loss and cleavage of DMSP in samples containing Phaeocystis sp (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304420310001386)
Birefringence and DNA condensation of liquid crystalline chromosomes (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950428/)