Rhodomonas lens Pascher et Ruttner
| Common Name | chromists | ||||
| Collection Site | 23°N -75°W Gulf Stream (lat long very approximate) | ||||
| Ocean | North Atlantic | ||||
| Sea | Gulf of Mexico | ||||
| Nearest Continent | North America | ||||
| Collected By | Lasker,R | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Lasker,R | ||||
| Isolated Date | 01/01/1951 | ||||
| Identified By | |||||
| Deposited By | Provasoli,L | ||||
| Deposit Date | 06/01/1982 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | RLENS, NEPCC588, Milford RHODO | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | Yes | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 12/06/2024 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | |||||
| Attributes | Algae, Marine, Robust, Warm Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | Yes | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1 - Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | DC-DV, DCM, f/2-Si, K, L1 - Si, Prov |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 13 - 26 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 8 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 13 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 5 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 8 |
The time required to regrow this culture, prior shipping, is approximately 17 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.
New daughter set created every two weeks
Daughter set……….…58umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….16umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Light backscattering properties of marine phytoplankton: relationships to cell size, chemical composition and taxonomy (https://academic.oup.com/plankt/article/26/2/191/1490132)
Comparison of early life history stages of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians: Effects of microalgal diets on growth and biochemical composition (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004484860600442X)
Enriching Rotifers with “Premium” Microalgae: Rhodomonas lens (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10126-019-09936-4)
Light capture and pigment diversity in marine and freshwater cryptophytes (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpy.12816)
Chemical defense of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis against rotifer grazing (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.2007.52.3.1026)
Does the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis use allelopathy to outcompete other phytoplankton? (https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.4319/lo.2005.50.3.0883)
Competing phytoplankton undermines allelopathy of a bloom-forming dinoflagellate (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18713720/)
Deleterious consequences of a red tide dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides for the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa (https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v390/p105-116/)
Fe-responsive accumulation of redox proteins ferredoxin and flavodoxin in a marine cryptomonad (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670260310001637306)