CC-1010 wild type mt+ [UTEX 90]

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From the University of Texas Algal Collection (UTEX), May 1980

This is a wild-type strain tracing back to the 1945 collection by G.M. Smith, near Amherst MA, but it has been separate from the 137c (CC-124 and CC-125) and Sager (CC-1690) lines since about 1950. This strain can grow on nitrate.

For more information on the origin of the standard laboratory strains of C. reinhardtii, please see the following paper:


Pröschold T, Harris EH, Coleman AW (2005) Portrait of a species: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genetics 170:1601-1610