SAG Strain Number: | 2025 |
TAXONOMY | |
Genus: | Chroococcidiopsis |
Species: | spec. |
Taxonomic position: | Cyanobacteria |
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Authentic: | no |
Division: | Cyanobacteria |
Class: | Cyanophyceae |
ORIGIN | |
General habitat: | endolithic |
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Continent: | America |
Country: | USA |
Locality: | Hawaii, Ewa Plain: endolithic from a coral rock |
Lat. / Long. (Precision): | 21.32136 / -157.999284 (6000m) View on Google Maps |
Year: | 1984 |
Isolated by: | B. Büdel |
Strain number by isolator: | Bü 84.1 |
Deposition by: | B. Büdel |
Deposition date: | 1999 |
CULTURE INFORMATION | |
Culture medium: | BG11 Ag |
Axenic: | bacterial and fungal contaminations |
Strain relatives: | |
Agitation resistance: | not detected |
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PUBLICATIONS | |
Publication: | Laura A 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: | Marin, B. et al. (2007) The ancestor of the Paulinella chromatophore obtained a carboxysomal operon by horizontal gene transfer from a Nitrococcus-like γ-proteobacterium. BMC Evol. Biol. 7 (85) |
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: | AJ344554 partial 16S rRNA gene (1464 bp) |
Sequence Accession: | AM709635 Chroococcidiopsis sp. SAG 2025 partial ribosomal RNA operon, strain SAG 2025. (4673 bp) |
CRYO | |
Cryopreservation: | not detected |
TEACHING | |
Recommended for teaching: | no |