UTEX LB 987
Isochrysis galbana


Condition: Xenic

Medium Type: Liquid


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Algae Details

UTEX Number: 987
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Strain: Isochrysis galbana
Medium: Erdschreiber's Medium (Erd)
Origin: Port Erin, Isle of Man, England
Description of Location: fish pond
GPS:
Type Culture: Yes
Collection:
Isolation: M.B. Parke (1938)
Isolator Number:
Deposition: Plymouth (11/17/60)
Relatives: CCAP 927/1 aka SMBA 58; CCMP1323 aka CCMP ISO; Plymouth I; NEPCC 2
Also Known As:
Notes: (Parke 1949); long chain alkenones and other lipids (Marlowe et al. 1984); light harvesting pigment proteins, monospecific antibodies (Friedman & Alberte 1987); produces highly unsaturated fatty acids [C20:5 & C22:6] (Thompson et al. 1988); (McLaughlin 1958)

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

Approximately 15 mL aliquots of the stock maintained as a liquid culture are transferred to screwcap tubes. Quality control (QC) checks are then completed via microscopy.

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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