Synechococcus sp.
| Common Name | blue-green algae | ||||
| Collection Site | 22.495°N -65.6°W Oceanus cruise 92 | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Sargasso Sea | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Waterbury,J | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Waterbury,J | ||||
| Isolated Date | 01/01/1981 | ||||
| Identified By | Waterbury,J | ||||
| Deposited By | Waterbury,J and Trowbridge,N | ||||
| Deposit Date | 02/06/2004 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | WH8102, 2X10-2,RCC 539 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 06/15/2025 | ||||
| Other Information | peachy-gold, motile; genome sequenced | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | peachy-gold, motile | ||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Warm Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | L1 - Si, Pro99 |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 12 - 30 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 1 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 2 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 1 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 2 |
The time required to regrow this culture, prior shipping, is approximately 0 days. If interested, please contact the CCMP for the cryopreservation methods (freezing and/or thawing protocols).
Note that aquaculture strains are always maintained as actively growing cultures, even if also cryogenically stored. Therefore, aquaculture strains (see aquaculture express ordering on the CCMP home page) can be shipped immediately upon request.
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…42umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…17umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….…16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Ecotypic variation in phosphorus-acquisition mechanisms within marine picocyanobacteria (https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/ame/v39/n3/p257-269/)
Nutrient temperature and light stress alter phosphorus and carbon forms in culture-grown algae (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304420310000253)
The measurement of phytoplankton biomass using flow- cytometric sorting and elemental analysis of carbon (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lom.2012.10.910)
Iodomethane production by two important marine cyanobacteria: Prochlorococcus marinus (CCMP 2389) and Synechococcus sp. (CCMP 2370) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304420311000132)