Ochromonas_cf sp.
| Common Name | chromists | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 77.8136°N -76.3697°W between Ellesmere Island, Canada and Greenland | ||||
| Ocean | Arctic | ||||
| Sea | Baffin Bay | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Lovejoy,C | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Lovejoy,C | ||||
| Isolated Date | 01/28/1999 | ||||
| Identified By | Lovejoy,C and Andersen,RA | ||||
| Deposited By | Lovejoy,C | ||||
| Deposit Date | 03/04/2003 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | Ochro SI50 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 02/04/2005 | ||||
| Other Information | sea ice core, North Water Polynya | ||||
| 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 with rice added after autoclaving |
| Other Reported Growth Media | L1-Si with added rice, Prov50 with added rice |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 2 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 0 - 6 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 6 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 10 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 4 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 10 |
New daughter set created every five weeks
Daughter set……….…7umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….10umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….7umol 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/)
Rediscovery of the Ochromonas type species Ochromonas triangulata (Chrysophyceae) from its type locality (Lake Veysove, Donetsk region, Ukraine) (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2216/17-15.1)