Strain number NIES-4067  
Phylum Chlorophyta  
Class Chlorophyceae  
Scientific name Pleodorina sphaerica M.O.P.Iyengar  
Synonym Eudorina sphaerica (Iyengar) Goldstein 1964  
Former name  
Common name Green alga  
Locality (Date of collection) Phon Thong Lake, Phon Thong District, Roi Et Province, Thailand (2015-11-28)  
Latitude / Longitude 16.27869444 / 104.00000556 
Habitat (Isolation source) Freshwater (Lake water)  
History < Nozaki, Hisayoshi  
Isolator (Date of isolation) Nozaki, Hisayoshi (2015-11-28)  
Identified by Nozaki, Hisayoshi  
State of strain Subculture; Unialgal; Clonal; Axenic[2017 May]  
Culture condition
(Preculture condition)
Medium:  AF-6 ;  AF-6/3  
Temperature:  20 C
Light intensity:  20 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle:  10L:14D
Duration:  1 M  
Gene information  
Cell size (min - max)  
Organization Colonial; Flagellate 
Characteristics Phototaxis ; Homothallic ; Dioecious  
Other strain no. Other strain no. : 2015-1128-2P-4  
Remarks Axenic 
Movie  
Related strain information
(Large number of orders and same genus or species)
Related strain information
(Used in same reference)
Strain number Scientific name Common name Habitat (Isolation source) Characteristics
NIES-4068
Volvox tertius Green alga ; Volvocine alga   Freshwater (Reservoir water) Phototaxis ; Homothallic ; Dioecious  
NIES-4066
Pleodorina sphaerica Green alga   Freshwater (Lake water) Phototaxis ; Homothallic ; Dioecious  
NIES-4069
Volvox tertius Green alga ; Volvocine alga   Freshwater (Reservoir water) Phototaxis ; Homothallic ; Dioecious  
Reference
Nozaki. H., Mahakham, W., Athibai, S., Yamamoto, K., Takusagawa, M., Misumi, O., Herron, M. D., Rosenzweig, F., Kawachi, M. 2017 Rediscovery of the species of ‘ancestral Volvox’: morphology and phylogenetic position of Pleodorina sphaerica (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) from Thailand. Phycologia, 56, 469-475.
Keywords: Molecular phylogeny; Morphology; Pleodorina; Pleodorina sphaerica; Sexuality; Somatic cell; Volvox
Strain(s): 4066,  4067,  4068,  4069 
PubMed: 29375162
DOI: 10.2216/17-3.1

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