Chroomonas sp.
| Common Name | chromists | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 41.5264°N -70.67°W Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts USA | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Nantucket Sound | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Stoecker,D | ||||
| Collection Date | 07/18/1982 | ||||
| Isolated By | Keller,M | ||||
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| Identified By | Hill,DRA | ||||
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| Deposit Date | |||||
| Strain Synonyms | EPT30 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 03/24/2005 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| 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 | h/2 |
| Other Reported Growth Media | f/2-Si, K, Prov50 |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 24 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 22 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 6 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 9 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 2 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 4 |
The time required to regrow this culture, prior shipping, is approximately 40 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.
Documentation:
Phycocyanin sensitizes both photosystem I and photosystem II in cryptophyte Chroomonas CCMP270 cells (https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0006-3495(08)70585-X)
Molecular phylogeny of phycocyanin-containing cryptophytes: evolution of biliproteins and geographical distribution (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00530.x)
The photophysics of cryptophyte light-harvesting (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1010603006003224)
Single-residue insertion switches the quaternary structure and exciton states of cryptophyte light-harvesting proteins (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1402538111)
Light capture and pigment diversity in marine and freshwater cryptophytes (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpy.12816)