News
new May. 15. 2013
We have changed species names of NIES-2171  Chlorella sp., NIES-2173 Chlorella vulgaris, NIES-2167 Chlorella sorokiniana and NIES-2330 Chlorella sp. to Micractinium inermum, C. sorokiniana, Didymogenes sphaerica and Didymogenes soliella, respectively.

new Apr. 30. 2013
A newly deposited strain is now available.
NIES-2742  Bulboplastis apyrenoidosa

Apr. 23. 2013
Color of the Porphyridium strains are now quoted for each of these cultures.

Apr. 15. 2013
Newly deposited strains are now available.
NIES-2667  Penium margaritaceum
NIES-2848  Chlamydomonas sp.
NIES-2849, NIES-2850, NIES-2851  Chlorococcum sp.

Apr. 8. 2013
A newly deposited strain is now available.
NIES-2665  Umezakia natans

Apr. 4. 2013
Newly deposited strains are now available.
NIES-2648  Trentepohlia arborum
NIES-2649, NIES-2650, NIES-2651, NIES-2652  Trentepohlia aurea

Apr. 3. 2013
We have changed species names of Coccomyxa sp. to Coccomyxa subellipsoidea.

Feb. 21. 2013
Newly deposited strains are now available.
NIES-2533, NIES-2534  Skeletonema dohrnii
NIES-2535, NIES-2536  Skeletonema japonicum
NIES-2537  Skeletonema tropicum
NIES-2716  Hemiselmis andersenii

Jan. 28. 2013
Newly deposited strains are now available.
NIES-2774, NIES-2775  Calyptrosphaera sphaeroidea

Jan. 25. 2013
We have changed "difficult to transport" starin to "Fragile species to transportaion stress" and "Fragile species to temperature changes".

Jan. 16. 2013
Newly deposited strains are now available.
NIES-2743 Chlamydomonas media
NIES-2744 Chlamydomonas pseudomacrostigma

Jan. 11. 2013
We updated the coccolithophorids strains with recent state as "coccolith bearing cells", "naked cells", or "under recovery for coccolith bearing".

Dec. 27. 2012
We have changed species names of Chattonella antiqua (10 strains) and Chattonella ovata (5 strains) to Chattonella marina var. antiqua and Chattonella marina var. ovata, respectively.

Dec. 21. 2012
Notification of species name change in NIES-39, 45, 46, 597.
We changed "Spirulina platensis " to "Arthrospira platensis ".

Dec. 20. 2012
Newly deposited strains are now available.
NIES-2736, NIES-2737, NIES-2738, NIES-2739Volvox ferrisii
NIES-2740Volvox kirkiorum
NIES-2745 Esquamula lacrimiformis

Notification of species name change in NIES-543.
We changed "Volvox prolificus " to "V. kirkiorum ".

We have changed the starin receipt-form with questionnaire. When sending your feedback to our collection, please, use the new form.

Search results are downloadable as a CSV file.

Genome sequence of Spirulina platensis  NIES-39 (Syn. Arthrospira platensis ) is available at  NITE  DOGAN     (http://www.bio.nite.go.jp/dogan/MicroTop?GENOME_ID=apl)

NIES-2166 Coccomyxa  sp. is now available. This strains is in the process of genome sequencing as Coccomyxa sp. C-169. （http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomeprj?term=C-169）

We have changed the application forms (to bi-directional). Please use the new ones for ordering and deposition of strains; otherwise we will request the re-send of the forms.


We have just published ‘NIES-Collection, List of Strains, 8th Edition.’  Please request to the e-mail address of the NIES-Collection if you are interested in the catalog.

The URL address of this homepage has been changed to http://mcc.nies.go.jp. Please change the bookmark.

2232 strain data appear in the homepage (including 199   IAM strains moved to NIES)

Genome information appears in “Topics”

“Search” and “online order” started