| SAG Strain Number: | 18.97 |
| TAXONOMY |
| Genus: | Prymnesium |
| Species: | parvum |
| Taxonomic position: | Haptophyta - Haptophyceae |
| Authority: | Carter |
| Variety: | |
| Formerly called: | Prymnesium saltans Massart |
| Authentic: | no |
| Division: | Haptophyta |
| Class: | Haptophyceae |
| ORIGIN |
| General habitat: | freshwater |
| Climatic zone: | temperate |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Country: | Germany |
| Locality: | Thüringen, Sondershausen, eutrophic freshwater fish pond with fish kill, brackish at time of algal bloom |
| Lat. / Long. (Precision): | 51.37494063021358 / 10.862293114660735 (200m) View on Google Maps |
| Year: | June 1997 |
| Isolated by: | U.G. Schlösser (coll. C.-J. Schulz, Sondershausen) |
| Strain number by isolator: | |
| Deposition by: | U.G. Schlösser (SAG) |
| Deposition date: | 1997 |
| CULTURE INFORMATION |
| Culture medium: | 1/2SWES |
| Axenic: | bacterial or other types of contamination |
| Strain relatives: | |
| Agitation resistance: | not detected |
| Special properties: | NO known Nagoya Protocol restrictions for this strain; able to produce toxic B-type Prymnesins (Bjoernholt Binzer et al. 2019); restricted use; causes fish disease; potentially ichthyotoxic; strain renamed into P. parvum acc. to Bjoernholt Binzer et al. 2018. SAG 08/2022 |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Publication: | Lohmann B. et al. (2025) Experimentelle Untersuchungen zum Gefährdungspotential durch Prymnesium parvum im Werra-Weser-Einzugsgebiet. In: Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) [Ed.] Ergebnisse der Jahrestagung 2024 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) und der deutschen und österreichischen Sektion der Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL) |
| Publication: | Bjørnholt Binzer S. et al. (2019) A-, B- and C-type prymnesins are clade specific compounds and chemotaxonomic markers in Prymnesium parvum. Harmful Algae 81:10-17 |
| Publication: | Nedbalová, Linda et al. (2016) Effect of salinity on the fatty acid and triacylglycerol composition of five haptophyte algae from the genera Coccolithophora, Isochrysis and Prymnesium determined by LC-MS/APCI. Phytochemistry 130:64-76 |
| SEQUENCE INFORMATION |
| Sequence Accession: | MK091110 Prymnesium parvum strain SAG18.97 ITS 1, partial sequence; 5.8S rRNA gene, complete sequence; and ITS2, partial sequence (672 bp) |
| CRYO |
| Cryopreservation: | not detected |
| TEACHING |
| Recommended for teaching: | no |
