UTEX B SP13
Nitzschia sp.


Condition: Xenic

Medium Type: Agar Slant


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Algae Details

UTEX Number: SP13
Class: Bacillariophyceae
Strain: Nitzschia sp.
Medium: 5% F/2 Medium (5% F/2)
Origin: Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma, USA
Description of Location: pool
GPS: 36_ 43.967, -98_ 14.884
Type Culture: No
Collection: W.J. Henley, A.E. Kirkwood
Isolation: A.E. Kirkwood
Isolator Number:
Deposition: W.J. Henley (6/05)
Relatives: SPMO 163-1; CCMP 2526
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About The Salt Plains (SP) Collection

The Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Oklahoma, USA is a moist soil habitat characterized by highly fluctuating salinity (ranging from freshwater to NaCl saturation) and temperature extremes (sometimes exceeding 50 °C). A broad range of halotolerant soil algae occur in this habitat, sometimes within microbial mats or in shallow pools.

A diverse range of Chlorophyceae, Bacillariophyceae and Cyanophyceae have been isolated and provided tentative identification by Dr. Andrea Kirkwood, and representative strains have been deposited in UTEX by Dr. William Henley. These strains have now been cryopreserved and are maintained at UTEX in indefinite storage under liquid nitrogen.

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