| SAG Strain Number: | 55.87 |
| TAXONOMY |
| Genus: | Pseudochloris |
| Species: | wilhelmii |
| Taxonomic position: | Chlorophyta - Trebouxiophyceae |
| Authority: | Somogyi, Felföldi et Vörös |
| Variety: | |
| Formerly called: | authentic material of Nannochloris eucaryotum (Wilhelm, Eisenbeis, Wild et Zahn) Menzel et Wild; Nannochlorum eucaryotum |
| Authentic: | yes |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Trebouxiophyceae |
| Common name: | Green Algae - Chlorophytes |
| ORIGIN |
| General habitat: | marine |
| Climatic zone: | |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Country: | former Yugoslavia |
| Locality: | isolated from a seawater aquarium at University of Mainz (Germany), that contained marine animals from Adria (Rovinj, former Yugoslavia) |
| Lat. / Long. (Precision): | 45.07993 / 13.636175 (1000m) View on Google Maps |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Isolated by: | C. Wilhelm |
| Strain number by isolator: | |
| Deposition by: | C. Wilhelm (Mainz) |
| Deposition date: | 12.1986 |
| CULTURE INFORMATION |
| Culture medium: | 1/2SWES Ag |
| Axenic: | bacterial or other types of contamination |
| Strain relatives: | UTEX 2502 |
| Agitation resistance: | yes |
| Special properties: | NO known Nagoya Protocol restrictions for this strain; renamed from Nannochloris eucaryotum into Pseudochloris wilhelmii Somogyi, Felföldi et Vörös gen. et. spec. nov. acc. to Somogyi et al 2013; acc. to Somogyi et al 2013: this strain is NOT identical with authentic isolate of Nannochlorum eucaryotum Mainz 1 used by Huss et al. 1999 (NCBI Acc. No. X06425) but identical with UTEX 2502. |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Publication: | Pritišanac E. et al. (2025) Comparative Study of the Microalgae-Based Wastewater Treatment, in an Oil Refining Industry Cogeneration Concept. Water 17 (15):2217 |
| Publication: | Blažina M. et al. (2022) Characterization of Pseudochloris wilhelmii potential for oil refinery wastewater remediation and valuable biomass cogeneration. Front. Mar. Sci. 9 |
| Publication: | Bogen C. et al. (2013) Identification of Monoraphidium contortum as a promising species for liquid biofuel production. Bioresource Technology 133:622-626 |
| Publication: | Somogyi B. et al. (2013) One step closer to eliminating the nomenclatural problems of minute coccoid green algae: Pseudochloris wilhelmii, gen. et sp. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta). Eur. J. Phycol. 48 (4):427-436 |
| Publication: | Friedl, T. et al. (2002) Phylogenetic relationships of green algae assigned to the genus Planophila (Chlorophyta): evidence from 18S rDNA sequence data and ultrastructure. Eur. J. Phycol. 37:373-384 |
| Publication: | Huss, V.A.R. et al. (1999) Biochemical taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the genus Chlorella sensu lato (Chlorophyta). J. Phycol. 35:587-598 |
| Publication: | Steinkötter, J. et al. (1994) Prasinophytes form independent lineages within the chlorophyta: evidence from ribosomal RNA sequence comparisons. J. Phycol. 30:340-345 |
| Publication: | Sargent, M. et al. (1988) Nucleotide sequence of the 18S rDNA from the microalga Nanochlorum eucaryotum. Nucleic Acids Res. 16 (9):4156 |
| Publication: | Wilhelm C. et al. (1981) Nannochlorum eucaryotum: a very reduced coccoid species of marine Chlorophyceae. Z. Naturforsch. 37c:107-114 |
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| SEQUENCE INFORMATION |
| Sequence Accession: | MK397012 Pseudochloris wilhelmii isolate SAG 55.87 (T) small subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; chloroplast. (842 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | KM020115 Pseudochloris wilhelmii strain SAG 55.87 18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. (1776 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | JX235962 Pseudochloris wilhelmii isolate SAG 55.87 18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. (1754 bp) |
| CRYO |
| Cryopreservation: | good survival |
| TEACHING |
| Recommended for teaching: | no |
