Symbiodinium sp.
| Common Name | zooxanthellae | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | -23.5°N 152°W Great Barrier Reef, Australia (lat long approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | South Pacific | ||||
| Sea | Coral Sea | ||||
| Nearest Continent | Australia | ||||
| Collected By | Miller,K & Mundy,C | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Moore,R | ||||
| Isolated Date | 12/01/2001 | ||||
| Identified By | Moore,R | ||||
| Deposited By | Moore,R | ||||
| Deposit Date | 06/16/2004 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | RM6, M8 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 07/03/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | Growing on the animal coral Leptastrea purpurea.this is the same species ad CCMP2434 according to LaJeunesse (private communication) | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| 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 | f/2-Si, L1 - Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 24 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 22 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 7 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 12 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 7 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 12 |
There is no cryopreservation record for this strain
New daughter set created every five weeks
Daughter set……….…23umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set…………...13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set…….9umol quanta m-2 s-1