CC-3349 “C. globosa” [SAG 81.72]

$30.00

Sammlung von Algenkulturen (SAG), October 1996

SAG isolates 81.72 and 7.73, originally designated as C. globosa and C. incerta respectively, appear to be identical with respect to chloroplast DNA restriction fragments and the ITS sequences that separate the nuclear ribosomal RNA genes, which have proved to be excellent diagnostic markers for phylogenetic analysis in Chlamydomonas. Since C. globosa was recorded as an isolate from the Netherlands, and C. incerta from the zoological garden in Havana, Cuba, one of these strains may have replaced the other in the SAG collection at some time in the past. Alternatively, the Cuban zoological garden might have inadvertently acquired a European Chlamydomonas.

SAG now lists both these strains as C. reinhardtii, although neither mates with laboratory C. reinhardtii strains.


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