| Strain number | NIES-866 | |||
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| Phylum | Chlorophyta | |||
| Class | Chlorophyceae | |||
| Scientific name | Volvox carteri F.Stein f. weismannia (Powers) Iyengar | |||
| Synonym | Volvox weismannia J.H.Powers; Merrillosphaera carteri var. weismannia (J.H.Powers) W.R.Shaw 1922 | |||
| Former name | ||||
| Common name | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | |||
| Locality (Date of collection) | Waterford, Australia | |||
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| Habitat (Isolation source) | ||||
| History | < Nozaki, Hisayoshi < UTEX | |||
| Isolator (Date of isolation) | Starr, R. C. | |||
| Identified by | Starr, R. C. | |||
| State of strain | Subculture; Unialgal; Clonal; Non-axenic | |||
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Culture condition (Preculture condition) |
Medium:
VTAC
Temperature: 22 C Light intensity: 27-31 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle: 10L:14D Duration: 20 D |
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| Gene information | 18S-ITS1-5.8S-ITS2-28S ( AB771953 ) , atpB ( AB076111 ) , rbcL ( AB076100 ) , psaA ( AB076130 ) , psbC ( AB076164 ) , psaB ( AB076149 ) , mat3 ( AB771945 ) , DNA ( LC004719 ) | |||
| Cell size (min - max) | ||||
| Organization | Colonial; Flagellate | |||
| Characteristics | Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Dioecious ; Oogamy ; Male | |||
| Other strain no. |
Other collection strain no. : UTEX 1875
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| Remarks | Fragile species to transportation stresses; Read and agree "How to order 4.1" | |||
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| Reference |
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Kawafune K., Hongoh, Y., Hamaji, T ., Sakamoto, T., Kurata, T., Hirooka, S., Miyagishima, S., Nozaki, H.
2015
Two different rickettsial bacteria invading Volvox carteri.
PLoS One,
10,
e0116192 (article ID).
Strain(s): 397, 398, 732, 733, 866 PubMed: 25671568 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116192 Hiraide, R., Kawai-Toyooka, H., Hamaji, T ., Matsuzaki, R., Kawafune, K., Abe, J., Sekimoto, H., Umen, J., Nozaki, H. 2013 The evolution of male–female sexual dimorphism predates the gender-based divergence of the mating locus gene MAT3/RB. Mol. Biol. Evol., 30, 1038-1040. Keywords: gender-based divergence; gene conversion; male–female sexual dimorphism; MAT3/RB, mating type locus; volvocine algae Strain(s): 722, 733, 866, 1710, 1711, 1859, 1861, 3985, 4018 PubMed: 23364323 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst018 Nozaki, H., Ott, F. D., Coleman, A. W. 2006 Morphology, molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of two new species of Pleodorina (Volvocaceae, Chlorophyceae). J. Phycol., 42, 1072-1080. Keywords: colonial Volvocales; molecular phylogeny; morphology; Pleodorina starrii sp. nov.; Pleodorina thompsonii sp. nov.; taxonomy Strain(s): 456, 460, 541, 544, 577, 666, 720, 721, 722, 724, 725, 728, 730, 731, 732, 734, 735, 736, 863, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 872, 891, 892, 1362, 1363, 4126, 4127 DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00255.x |
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