Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm et al.
| Common Name | blue-green algae | ||||
| Collection Site | 39°N -49.3°W | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | Open ocean | ||||
| Collected By | |||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Scanlan,D | ||||
| Isolated Date | 04/01/1990 | ||||
| Identified By | |||||
| Deposited By | Coe,A (Chisolm lab) | ||||
| Deposit Date | 12/12/2007 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | NATL2A | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 08/09/2007 | ||||
| Other Information | collected at a depth of 10 meters; grown in dim light; has genome sequence | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | 1.2-1.6 um long by 0.6-0.8um wide | ||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | Pro99 |
| Other Reported Growth Media | |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 22 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | |
| Cell Length (Max) | |
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New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…6umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….7umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….…..9umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Measurement of Prochlorococcus ecotypes using real-time polymerase chain reaction reveals different abundance of genotypes with similar light physiologies (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16478451/)
Glutamine synthetase from the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp.: characterization, phylogeny and response to nutrient limitation (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12713467/)
Nitrate is reduced by heterotrophic bacteria by not transferred to Prochlorococcus in non-axenic cultures (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19709249/)
Complementation of a phycocyanin-bilin lyase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with a nucleomorph-encoded reading frame from the cryptophyte Guillardia theta (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18485196/)