| SAG Strain Number: | 65.79 |
| TAXONOMY |
| Genus: | Nostoc |
| Species: | punctiforme |
| Taxonomic position: | Cyanobacteria |
| Authority: | (Kützing) Hariot |
| Variety: | |
| Formerly called: | N. sphaericum |
| Authentic: | no |
| Division: | Cyanobacteria |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| Common name: | Blue-Green Algae |
| ORIGIN |
| General habitat: | endosymbiont |
| Climatic zone: | temperate |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Country: | Germany |
| Locality: | Rostock, Rostocker Heide, symbiont of Blasia pusilla |
| Lat. / Long. (Precision): | 54.199604 / 12.207327 (5000m) View on Google Maps |
| Year: | before 1964 |
| Isolated by: | H. Pankow |
| Strain number by isolator: | Mollenhauer strain 16.06 |
| Deposition by: | D. Mollenhauer (< H. Pankow) |
| Deposition date: | before 1980 |
| CULTURE INFORMATION |
| Culture medium: | ES Ag |
| Axenic: | bacterial or other types of contamination |
| Strain relatives: | |
| Agitation resistance: | yes |
| Special properties: | NO known Nagoya Protocol restrictions for this strain; |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Publication: | O'Brien, H.E. et al. (2005) Assessing host specialization in symbiotic cyanobacteria associated with four closely related species of the lichen fungus Peltigera. Eur. J. Phycol. 40 (4):363-378 |
| Publication: | Pankow, H. et al. (1964) Über Nostoc sphaericum Vauch. Arch. Mikrobiol. 48:203-212 |
| SEQUENCE INFORMATION |
| Sequence Accession: | DQ185314 Nostoc punctiforme SAG 65.79 ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL) gene, partial cds; and chaperonin-like protein (rbcX) gene, complete cds. (830 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | DQ185255 Nostoc punctiforme SAG 65.79 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. (1449 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | DQ185198 Nostoc punctiforme SAG 65.79 trnL gene, intron. (275 bp) |
| CRYO |
| Cryopreservation: | not detected |
| TEACHING |
| Recommended for teaching: | no |
