| Strain number | NIES-4662 | |||
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| Phylum | Chlorophyta | |||
| Class | Chlorophyceae | |||
| Scientific name | Volvox sagami Nozaki & N.Ueki | |||
| Synonym | ||||
| Former name | Formerly identified as Volvox sp. Sagami, named based on Nozaki et al. 2026[2026 June] | |||
| Common name | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | |||
| Locality (Date of collection) | Sotobori, Shinju-ku, Tokyo, Japan (2021-05-15) | |||
| Latitude / Longitude | 35.699994 / 139.742759 | |||
| Habitat (Isolation source) | Freshwater (Water) | |||
| History | < Nozaki, Hisayoshi < Ueki, Noriko | |||
| Isolator (Date of isolation) | Ueki, Noriko (2021-05-15) | |||
| Identified by | Nozaki, Hisayoshi | |||
| State of strain | Subculture; Unialgal; Clonal; Non-axenic | |||
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Culture condition (Preculture condition) |
Medium:
VTAC
Temperature: 20 C Light intensity: 15-21 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle: 10L:14D Duration: 1 M |
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| Gene information | 18S-ITS1-5.8S-ITS2-28S ( LC817964 ) , act1 ( LC817976 ) , rbcL ( LC817987 ) , psbC ( LC817993 ) | |||
| Cell size (min - max) | ||||
| Organization | Colonial; Flagellate | |||
| Characteristics | Phototaxis ; Endemic to Japan ; Homothallic ; Monoecious | |||
| Other strain no. | Other strain no. : SB01 | |||
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Related strain information
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| Strain number | Scientific name | Common name | Habitat (Isolation source) | Characteristics |
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NIES-397 |
Volvox carteri | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Paddy water) | Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Female ; Crosses with NIES-398 |
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NIES-398 |
Volvox carteri | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Paddy water) | Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Male ; Crosses with NIES-397 |
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NIES-541 |
Volvox aureus | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Sediment) | Phototaxis |
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NIES-734 |
Volvox rousseletii | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater | Phototaxis |
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NIES-580 |
Volvox carteri | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Paddy soil) | Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Dioecious ; Oogamy ; Female ; Crosses with NIES-581 |
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Related strain information
(Whose relevance due to simultaneous purchases and other information is inferred by AI)
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| Strain number | Scientific name | Common name | Habitat (Isolation source) | Characteristics |
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NIES-732 |
Volvox carteri | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Paddy soil) | Phototaxis ; Authentic strain ; Heterothallic ; Dioecious ; Oogamy ; Female ; Crosses with NIES-733 |
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NIES-3780 |
Volvox africanus | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Lake water) | Phototaxis ; Homothallic ; Monoecious with male ; Oogamy ; F1 strain (NIES-3784) ; Genome decoded strain (Yamamoto et al. 2021) |
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Related strain information
(Used in same reference)
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| Strain number | Scientific name | Common name | Habitat (Isolation source) | Characteristics |
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NIES-1711 |
Gonium pectorale | Green alga | Freshwater (Paddy soil) | Phototaxis ; Cosmopolitan ; Heterothallic ; Isogamous ; Mating type (+) ; Crosses with NIES-1710 ; F3 strain (NIES-2863) |
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NIES-4537 |
Volvox rousseletii | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Reservoir water) | Phototaxis ; Dioecious ; Heterothallic ; Male |
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NIES-891 |
Volvox aureus | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Lake water) | Phototaxis |
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NIES-545 |
Volvulina steinii | Green alga | Freshwater (Paddy soil) | Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Mating type (−) ; Crosses with NIES-546 |
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NIES-4661 |
Volvox biwakoensis | Green alga ; Volvocine alga | Freshwater (Lake water) | Phototaxis ; Endemic to Japan ; Homothallic ; Monoecious |
| Reference |
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Nozaki, H., Matsuzaki, R., Shimotori, K., Ueki, N., Heman, W., Mahakham, W., Yamaguchi, H., Tanabe, Y., Kawachi, M.
2024
Two species of the green algae Volvox sect. Volvox from the Japanese ancient lake, Lake Biwa.
PLoS One,
19,
e0310549 (article ID).
Strain(s): 543, 2736, 2740, 3874, 4021, 4022, 4258, 4259, 4336, 4337, 4434, 4661, 4662 PubMed: 39312548 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310549 Ueki, N. & Wakabayashi, K. 2025 Multicellularity and increasing Reynolds number impact on the evolutionary shift in flash-induced ciliary response in Volvocales. BMC Ecol. Evol., 24, 119 (article ID). Strain(s): 544, 545, 564, 571, 574, 576, 717, 728, 730, 731, 734, 867, 868, 882, 891, 1711, 2569, 3780, 3785, 4029, 4127, 4270, 4662 PubMed: 39277710 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02307-1 Nozaki, H., Matsuzaki, R., Takahashi, K., Yamamoto, K., Suzuki, S., Ootsuki, R., Kawachi, M., Tanabe, Y., Ueki, N. 2026 Molecular and morphological delineations of two homothallic monoicous species, Volvox sagami sp. nov. and V. ferrisii (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) in Japan. Phycologia, 65, 189-198. Keywords: Chlorophyta; nuclear genes phylogeny; reproductive isolation; sexual reproduction; Taxonomyvol; vocine algae Strain(s): 2736, 2737, 2739, 3987, 3988, 4021, 4022, 4026, 4029, 4465, 4534, 4536, 4537, 4593, 4661, 4662 DOI: 10.1080/00318884.2026.2683158 |
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