Strain number NIES-3945  
Phylum Euglenozoa  
Class Euglenophyceae  
Scientific name Euglena agilis H.J.Carter  
Synonym E. agilis var. circumsuta J.Schiller 0; E. agilis var. minor J.Schiller 0; E. agilis var. pyrenoides J.Schiller 0; E. agilis var. varians Unknown Authority 0; E. pisciformis Klebs 1883; E.a pisciformis var. minor Hansgirg 1887; E. bipyrenoidata Proshkina-Lavrenko 1937; E. nana L.P.Johnson 1944; E. pisciformis var. mucronata E.G.Pringsheim 1956; E. pisciformis var. obtusa E.G.Pringsheim 1956; E. pisciformis var. fallax E.G.Pringsheim 1956; E. pisciformis var. lata E.G.Pringsheim 1956; E. pisciformis var. procera E.G.Pringsheim 1956; E. pisciformis var. striata E.G.Pringsheim 1956; E. agilis var. praeexicisa J.Schiller 1956  
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Common name  
Locality (Date of collection) Hayashima-cho, Okayama, Japan (2013-07-24)  
Latitude / Longitude 34.6 / 133.81666666 
Habitat (Isolation source) Freshwater (Water)  
History < Suzuki, Kengo < Sharbanee, M.  
Isolator (Date of isolation) Sharbanee, Mitra (2013-10-01)  
Identified by Iwata, Osamu; Yamada, Koji; Takeuchi, Takuto  
State of strain Subculture; Unialgal; Clonal; Axenic[2017 Dec]  
Culture condition
(Preculture condition)
Medium:  mAC  
Temperature:  20 C
Light intensity:  12 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle:  10L:14D
Duration:  2 M  
Gene information Whole-genome ( PRJDB4359 ) , 28S rRNA ( LC877810 ) , 16S rRNA ( LC208783 )  
Cell size (min - max) 20 - 30 μm  
Organization Unicellular; Flagellate 
Characteristics Genome decoded strain (Nomura et al. 2025)  
Other strain no. Other strain no. : eu039  
Remarks Axenic 
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Related strain information
(Large number of orders and same genus or species)
Reference
Nomura, T., Kim, J.-S., Iwata, O., Yamada, K., Atsuji, K., Uehara-Yamaguchi, Y., Yoshida, T., Inoue, K., Takahagi, K., Sakurai, T., Shinozaki, K., Ito, T., Suzuki, K., Goda, K., Mochida, K. 2025 Genetic dissection of nonconventional introns reveals codominant noncanonical splicing code in Euglena. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 122, e2509937122 (article ID).
Keywords: Euglena; nonconventional intron; genome editing; synthetic intron
Strain(s): 3945 
PubMed: 40986342
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2509937122

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