SAG 2025 Chroococcidiopsis spec.
| 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: | 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 |
