Micromonas commoda Baren, Bachy & Worden
| Common Name | chlorophyta | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | -22.3333°N 166.3333°W South Pacific, Ebene Cruise | ||||
| Ocean | South Pacific | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | Unknown | ||||
| Collected By | |||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Boulben, S | ||||
| Isolated Date | 02/10/1998 | ||||
| Identified By | Simon et al. | ||||
| Deposited By | Worden, A | ||||
| Deposit Date | 08/31/2006 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | RCC827, RCC299 axenic, NOUM97017_Clonal | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 03/04/2026 | ||||
| Other Information | collected at the surface; made axenic by Alex Worden, 30Apr2005 | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | Yes | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Warm Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | K |
| Other Reported Growth Media | K, L1 - Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 24 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 2 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 2 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 2 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 2 |
The time required to regrow this culture, prior shipping, is approximately 14 days.
New daughter set created every two weeks at 20uL into 18mL
Daughter set……….…50umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….8umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Revision of the genus Micromonas Manton et Parke (Chlorophyta, Mamiellophyceae), of the type species M. pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke and of the species M. commoda van Baren, Bachy and Worden and description of two new species based on the genetic and phenotypic characterization of cultured isolates (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29028580/)
Evidence-based green algal genomics reveals marine diversity and ancestral characteristics of land plants (https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-016-2585-6)
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/)
Growth on ATP elicits a P-stress response in the picoeukaryote Micromonas pusilla (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155158)
Phosphonate utilization by eukaryotic phytoplankton (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lol2.10100)