UTEX 640
Phaeodactylum tricornutum
Algae Details
| UTEX Number: | 646 |
| Class: | Bacillariophyceae |
| Strain: | Phaeodactylum tricornutum |
| Media: | Soil Extract + Sodium Metasilicate Medium (SE+Si) |
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| Type Culture: | No |
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| Isolation: | M.B. Allen |
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| Deposition: | CCAP (3/55) |
| Relatives: | UTEX 642, UTEX 2090; CCAP 1052/1B aka Barker's HMS Z912 from the Plymouth strain, SMBA 307, CCAP 1052/1A; SAG 1090-1b, SAG 1090-1a; SAG 1090-1a; Plymouth 100; IAM B-9, IAM B- 15; NIBB 3002 |
| Also Known As: | Nitzschia closterium |
| Notes: | this is a marine isolate growing in freshwater medium; 1976 renamed (George 1976); high EPA/lipid content (Yongmanitchae & Ward 1991); (Lewin 1958, Lewin & Lewin 1960); In 1974, J.C. Lewin (pers. Comm.) identified some of our Nitzchia cultures as Phaeodactylum [see UTEX 640, 642, 646 & 2089] with the following explanation: "Oval cells of Phaeodactylum occur in cultures kept on agar. There is a gradual transformation back to the fusiform state, after oval cells are inoculated into liquid medium. Sometimes, people who don't know about this unusual life style may end up being fooled." |
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