The Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies

Strain Data


Strain number NIES-293  
Phylum Heterokontophyta  
Class Raphidophyceae  
Scientific name Heterosigma akashiwo (Hada) Hada  
Synonym -----  
Former name  
Common name  
Locality (Date of collection) Onagawa Bay Miyagi Japan (1984-08-28)  
Habitat (Isolation source) Marine (Seawater)  
History < Suda, Shoichiro  
Isolator (Date of isolation) Suda, Shoichiro (1984-09-01)  

Identified by

Suda, Shoichiro  
State of strain Unialgal; Clonal; Axenic  
Preservation state
(State of preservation)
Subculture  
Culture condition
( Preculture condition )
Medium: f/2
Temperature: 20 ℃
Light intensity: 32-40 µmol photons/m2/sec
Duration: 1 M  
Gene information
Characteristics Red tide  
Other strain no. 8280G21-1  
Remarks Difficult to transport  

Reference
43)   Cattolico, R. A., Jacobs, M. A., Zhou, Y., Chang, J., Duplessis, M., Lybrand, T., McKay, J., Ong, H. C., Sims, E., Rocap, G. 2008 Chloroplast genome sequencing analysis of Heterosigma akashiwo CCAM452 (West Atlantic) and NIES293 (West Pacific) strains. BMC Genomics, 9, 211-230.

52)   Connell, L., Cattolico, R. A. 1996 Fragile algae: axenic culture of field-collected samples of Heterosigma carterae. Mar. Biol., 125, 421-426.

352)   Ki, J.-S., Han, M.-S. 2007 Nuclear rDNA and chloroplast rbcL, rbcS and IGS sequence data, and their implications from the Japanese, Korean, and North American harmful algae, Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae). Environ. Res., 103, 299-304.

920)   Takeda, F., Sakamaki, T., Xu, K., Chiba, N., Nishimura, O., Sudo, R. 2003 Effect of potential allelochemicals extracted from Sargassum horneri on the growth of red tide microalgae. J. Environ. Syst. and Eng., JSCE, VII-29, 25-32.