UTEX LB 2697 Acetabularia major

UTEX LB 2697
Acetabularia major

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Algae Details

UTEX Number:	2697
Class:	Chlorophyceae
Strain:	Acetabularia major
Media:	Dasycladales Seawater Medium
Origin:	Catalagan, Philippines
Description of Location:
Type Culture:	No
Collection:	H.G. Schweiger (1971)
Isolation:
Isolator Number:
Deposition:	S. Berger (12/6/96)
Relatives:	MPI-Zb
Also Known As:	A. major
Notes:	(Schweiger et al. 1974); (Berger & Kaever 1992)

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About The Dasycladales Macroalgae Collection

The Dasycladales are among the most improbable unicellular organisms that exist. They represent an order of green algae that already existed during the Cambrium period, 570 million years ago. With only 11 extant genera of the Dasycladales alive today—indicating an extinction of this order is at hand, recent species have been designated "living fossils." Well-preserved fossil relicts together with the availability of recent species have allowed paleontologists to gain detailed insight into the evolution of a plant order. These large unicellular organisms make them especially well-suited research objects for the study of different aspects of cell biology in order to understand basic phenomena of life. They are so large that one can enucleate a single cell with one's bare hands, and both nucleate and enucleate portions can survive and even exhibit potential for development for some weeks.

This unique collection of Dasycladales cultures was originally set up at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology by renowned researchers in cell biology: Joachim Hämmerling (1901-1980) and Hans-Georg Schweiger (1927-1986). The collection was then deposited at UTEX in 2002 by Dr. Sigrid Berger who maintained these fascinating organisms up until the Max Planck Institute closed.

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