SAG 2024 Chroococcidiopsis spec.
| SAG Strain Number: | 2024 |
| TAXONOMY | |
| Genus: | Chroococcidiopsis |
| Species: | spec. |
| Taxonomic position: | Cyanobacteria |
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| Authentic: | no |
| Division: | Cyanobacteria |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| ORIGIN | |
| General habitat: | phycobiont |
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| Continent: | America |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Locality: | phycobiont of lichen Anema nummularium var. nummulariellum |
| Lat. / Long. (Precision): | |
| Year: | 1982 |
| Isolated by: | B. Büdel |
| Strain number by isolator: | Bü 82.3 |
| Deposition by: | B. Büdel |
| Deposition date: | 1999 |
| CULTURE INFORMATION | |
| Culture medium: | BG11 Ag |
| Axenic: | bacterial or other types of contamination |
| Strain relatives: | |
| Agitation resistance: | yes |
| Special properties: | |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| Publication: | Jung P.J. et al. (2024) The underestimated fraction: diversity, challenges and novel insights into unicellular cyanobionts of lichens. ISME Comm. 4 (1):ycae069 |
| Publication: | Antonaru L.A. et al. (2023) Common loss of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria from hot and cold deserts: a case study in the Chroococcidiopsidales. ISME Comm. 3 (1):113 |
| Publication: | Donner, A. (2013) The case of Chroococcidiopsis: New phylogenetic and morphological insights into ecologically important Cyanobacteria. |
| Publication: | Fewer, D. et al. (2002) Chroococcidiopsis and heterocyst-differentiating cyanobacteria are each other's closest relatives. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 23:82-90 |
| SEQUENCE INFORMATION | |
| Sequence Accession: | AJ344553 partial 16S rRNA gene (1470 bp) |
| CRYO | |
| Cryopreservation: | not detected |
| TEACHING | |
| Recommended for teaching: | no |
