UTEX B 3054
Gloeocapsopsis sp.


Condition: Xenic

Medium Type: Agar Slant


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Algae Details

UTEX Number: 3054
Class: Cyanophyceae
Strain: Gloeocapsopsis sp.
Medium: BG-11 Medium (BG-11)
Origin: Chile
Description of Location: The strain was collected from a hypolithic microbial community from a quartz rock in the coastal Atacama Desert. The site was located 22 km south of the city of Antofagasta, in the eastern slope of the hills of the Coastal Range and about 1.5 km from the Pacific Ocean.
GPS: 23° 48′59″ S, 70° 29′25″ W, elevation 537 m
Type Culture: No
Collection: Armando Azua-Bustos
Isolation: Catalina Urrejola (2011)
Isolator Number: 1H9
Deposition: Catalina Urrejola (1/30/2017)
Relatives:
Also Known As: Gloeocapsopsis dulcis strain AAB1
Notes: Azua-Bustos A, Zúñiga J, Arenas-Fajardo C, Orellana M, Salas L, Rafael V. (2014) Gloeocapsopsis AAB1, an extremely desiccation-tolerant cyanobacterium isolated from the Atacama Desert. Extremophiles. 18(1):61-74. doi: 10.1007/s00792-013-0592-y.

Moore RA, Azua-Bustos A, González-Silva C, Carr CE. (2023) Unveiling metabolic pathways involved in the extreme desiccation tolerance of an Atacama cyanobacterium. Sci Rep. 13(1):15767. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-41879-8.

General Long-Term Maintenance Conditions

Temperature: 20 °C
Light source: mix of warm-white & cool-white fluorescent lamps
Intensity: 3200 lux (maximum)
Periodicity: 12:12 Light/Dark Cycle

To reduce the risk of losing newly acquired cultures, it is highly recommended to initially duplicate the Collection's long-term maintenance conditions. Please note that these general maintenance conditions are not designed for optimal algal growth rates or large quantities. For information on the best growth conditions and media, consult other literature or conduct your own experiments. Once a stock culture is established, subcultures can be used to test other conditions.

You can find additional details on the long-term culture maintenance conditions on the Culture Maintenance Guides page.


Preparation of Living Algal Strains For Orders

Agar cultures are transferred to fresh agar slants in 20-mm glass screwcap tubes. After quality control (QC) checks via microscopy are completed, the tubes are cultured under a diurnal light cycle for a minimum of three (3) days.

Cultures are sealed and packaged in a temperature-regulating mailer and shipped the same day.

UTEX makes no attempt to quantify the number of organisms or other characteristics of the culture and only guarantees the identity of the organism as specified in the strain history.


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