CC-1419 C. eugametos E9 wild type male

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From C.S. Gowans, University of Missouri, March 1983

This is the basic wild type strain of C. eugametos, originally from the Indiana (now UTEX) collection. It is the same as UTEX 9 and CCAP 11/5, originally from Moewus

On Ettl’s authority UTEX has renamed this strain as C. moewusii. However, popular laboratory usage distinguishes ‘C. eugametos’ UTEX 9 and 10 and their derivatives, including mutant strains isolated by Gowans, from the C. moewusii laboratory strains UTEX 96 and 97 and their derivatives, which trace their origin to Provasoli. We have kept ‘C. eugametos”” in the designation of the strains in the Chlamydomonas Resource Center collection, with the acknowledgment that on strictly taxonomic criteria they are more properly ‘C. moewusii’.


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McBride JC, Gowans CS (1967) Pyrithiamine resistance in Chlamydomonas eugametos. Genetics 56:405-412