| SAG Strain Number: | 27.96 |
| TAXONOMY |
| Genus: | Paramecium |
| Species: | protobursaria |
| Taxonomic position: | Alveolates - Ciliatae |
| Authority: | Spanner at al. 2022 |
| Variety: | |
| Formerly called: | Paramecium bursaria Ehrenberg |
| Authentic: | no |
| Division: | Alveolates |
| Class: | Ciliatae |
| ORIGIN |
| General habitat: | freshwater |
| Climatic zone: | temperate |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Country: | Germany |
| Locality: | Bot. Gard. Univ. Göttingen, pond |
| Lat. / Long. (Precision): | 51.538201 / 9.938237 (200m) View on Google Maps |
| Year: | 1974 |
| Isolated by: | W. Koch |
| Strain number by isolator: | |
| Deposition by: | W. Koch (SAG) |
| Deposition date: | 1974 |
| CULTURE INFORMATION |
| Culture medium: | Moehre ES |
| Axenic: | bacterial or other types of contamination |
| Strain relatives: | |
| Agitation resistance: | not detected |
| Special properties: | NO known Nagoya Protocol restrictions for this strain; strain reassigned to P. protobursaria acc. Spanner et al. 2022. SAG 07/2024; with endosymbiont Chlorella spec. SAG 241.80; recommended for schools |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Publication: | Spanner C. et al. (2022) Morphological diversity and molecular phylogeny of five Paramecium bursaria (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) syngens and the identification of their green algal endosymbionts. Sci. Rep. 12 (1):18089 |
| Publication: | Spanner C. et al. (2020) Endosymbiotic Green Algae in Paramecium bursaria: A New Isolation Method and a Simple Diagnostic PCR Approach for the Identification. Diversity 12 (6):240 |
| Publication: | Reisser W. (1987) Naturally Occurring and Artificially Established Associations of Ciliates and Algae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 503 (1 Endocytobiolo):316-329 |
| Publication: | Niess, Dörte et al. (1982) Photobehaviour of Paramecium bursaria infected with different symbiotic and aposymbiotic species of Chlorella. Planta 156 (5):475-480 |
| Publication: | Niess D. et al. (1981) The role of endosymbiotic algae in photoaccumulation of green Paramecium bursaria. Planta 152 (3):268-271 |
| Publication: | Meier, Renate et al. (1980) Freeze-Fracture Evidence of Differences between Membranes of Perialgal and Digestive Vacuoles in Paramecium bursaria. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C 35 c (11-12):1107 |
| Publication: | Reisser, Von Werner et al. (1980) Zytologische Analyse der Endosymbioseeinheit von Paramecium bursaria Ehrbg. und Chlorella spec. Archiv für Protistenkunde 123 (3):326-332 |
| Publication: | Reisser, Werner (1976) Die stoffwechselphysiologischen Beziehungen zwischen Paramecium bursaria Ehrbg. und Chlorella spec. in der Paramecium bursaria-Symbiose. Archives of Microbiology 107 (3):357-360 |
| Publication: | Reisser, Werner (1975) Zur Taxonomie einer auxotrophen Chlorella aus Paramecium bursaria Ehrbg. Archives of Microbiology 104 (1):293-295 |
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| SEQUENCE INFORMATION |
| Sequence Accession: | MT231333 Paramecium bursaria strain SAG 27.96 SSU rRNA gene, partial sequence; ITS1, 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, and ITS2, complete sequence; and LSU rRNA gene, partial sequence (2195 bp) |
| CRYO |
| Cryopreservation: | not detected |
| TEACHING |
| Recommended for teaching: | yes |
