Pyrocystis noctiluca Murray et Haeckel
| Common Name | alveolates | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | 34.25°N -119.72°W Santa Barbara Channel, California USA (lat long approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | North Pacific | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Sweeney,B | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Sweeney,B | ||||
| Isolated Date | 11/01/1977 | ||||
| Identified By | Sweeney,B | ||||
| Deposited By | Sweeney,B | ||||
| Deposit Date | 07/16/1985 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | CCMP4 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 07/26/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | Secci depth 25M,temp 16^C at surface,salinity 33ppt. | ||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Robust, Temperate | ||||
| 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, Prov |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 25 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 200 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 210 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 200 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 210 |
New daughter set created every three weeks at 250uL from the bottom of vessel into 18mL
Daughter set……….…39umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….8umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Use of fluorescein diacetate (FDA) as a single-cell probe of metabolic activity in dinoflagellate cultures (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01965581.1988.10749548)