The Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies

Strain Data


Strain number NIES-136  
Phylum Heterokontophyta   Class Raphidophyceae 
Scientific name Fibrocapsa japonica Toriumi et Takano  
Synonym -----  
Former name  
Common name  
Locality (Date of collection) Tsuda Bay Kagawa Japan (1978-07-19)  
Habitat (Isolation source) Marine  
History < KAGAWA  
Isolator (Date of isolation) Yuki, Katsuhisa (-----)  
Identified by Yuki, Katsuhisa  
State of strain Unialgal; Clonal; Axenic[2013 Jan]  
Preservation state
(State of preservation)
Subculture  
Culture condition
( Preculture condition )
Medium:  f/2  
Temperature: 20 C
Light intensity: 32-40 µmol photons/m2/sec     L/D cycle: 12L:12D
Duration: 1 M  
Gene information
Cell size (min - max) - 22 μm   Organization Unicellular; Flagellate 
Characteristics Red tide  
Other strain no. Other strain no. : KGW-20-2  
Remarks Fragile species to transportation stresses 

Reference
71)   Connell, L. 2002 Rapid identification of marine algae (Raphidophyceae) using three-primer peR amplification of nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions from fresh and archived material. Phycologia, 41, 15-21. , Strain(s): 115136 

77)   de Boer, M. K., Tyl, M. R., Fu, M., Kulk, G., Liebezeit, G., Tomas, C. R., Lenzi, A., Naar, J., Vrieling, E. G., van Rijssel, M. 2009 Haemolytic activity within the species Fibrocapsa japonica (Raphidophyceae). Harmful Algae, 8, 3, , Keywords: Brevetoxin; Haemolytic activity; Harmgul algal bloom; Polyunsaturated fatty acid; toxicity , Strain(s): 136 

154)   Guidi-Rontani, C., Maheswari, U., Jabbari, K., Bowler, C. 2010 Comparative ecophysiology and genomics of the toxic unicellular alga Fibrocapsa japonica. New Phytol., 185, 446-458. , Keywords: expressed sequence tags (ESTs); Fibrocapsa japonica; harmful algal blooms; heterokont; phylogeny; raphidophyte; stramenopile; toxicity , Strain(s): 1364625606051303 

289)   Iida, K., Takishita, K., Ohshima, K., Inagaki, Y. 2007 Assessing the monophyly of chlorophyll-c containing plastids by multi-gene phylogenies under the unlinked model conditions. Mol. Phylog. Evol., 45(1), 227-238. , Keywords: chromist; chromalveolate; secondary endosymbiosis; model misspecification; separate model; concatenate model , Strain(s): 115136548670716 

572)   Marshall, J. A., Nichols, P. D., Hallegraeff, G. M. 2002 Chemotaxonomic survey of sterols and fatty acids in six marine raphidophyte algae. J. Appl. Phycol., 14, 255-265. , Keywords: Chattonella antiqua; Chattonella marina; Chattonella subsalsa; chemotaxonomy; fatty acids; Fibrocapsa japonica; Heterosigma akashiwo; Olisthodiscus luteus; phycotoxins; raphydophytes; sterols , Strain(s): 15118136 

1271)   Uye, S., Takamatsu, K. 1990 Feeding inter-actions between planktonic copepods and red-tide flagellates from Japanese coastal waters. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 59, 97-107. , Strain(s): 1215136145221235251319