* The listed price of $30.00 for cultures and plasmids is for academic and non-profit users. Commercial and industrial users are charged $300.00 for each strain or plasmid and twice the listed price for media components. BACs and fosmids are $50.00 for academic and non-profit users and $500 for commercial/industry. For the Jonikas CLiP mutants, the price is $100.00 each for academic and non-profit users and commercial and industrial users are charged $1000.00. Subscriptions cannot be used for CLiP mutants, BACs nor fosmids.
CC-409 wild type mt+ [SAG 11-32b, which = UTEX 90]
$30.00
This strain was obtained by David Grant from Uwe G. Schlösser, Sammlung von Algenkulturen (SAG), while David was at the University of Chicago, and was brought to Duke University by him. It is equivalent to CC-1010 UTEX 90, and 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