Strain number NIES-4679  
Phylum Heterokontophyta  
Class Bolidophyceae  
Scientific name Lepidoparma frigida Kamakura & S.Sato  
Synonym  
Former name  
Common name  
Locality (Date of collection) the Sea of Okhotsk Japan (2014-06-08)  
Latitude / Longitude 44.50 / 144.333 
Habitat (Isolation source) Marine (Seawater)  
History < Sato, Shinya < Ichinomiya, Mutsuo  
Isolator (Date of isolation) Ichinomiya, Mutsuo (2014-07-**)  
Identified by Sato, Shinya  
State of strain Subculture; Unialgal; Non-clonal; Non-axenic  
Culture condition
(Preculture condition)
Medium:  ESM  
Temperature:  5 C
Light intensity:  59 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle:  10L:14D
Duration:  1 M  
Gene information Plastid genome ( BR002544 )  
Cell size (min - max) 2 - 3 μm  
Organization Unicellular 
Characteristics Authentic strain (Kamakura et al. 2025)  
Other strain no. Other strain no. : Scaly parma  
Remarks  
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Reference
Ban, H., Sato, S., Yoshikawa, S., Yamada, K., Nakamura, Y., Ichinomiya, M., Sato, N., Blanc-Mathieu, R., Endo, H., Kuwata, A., Ogata, H. 2023 Genome analysis of Parmales, the sister group of diatoms, reveals the evolutionary specialization of diatoms from phago-mixotrophs to photoautotrophs. Commun. Biol., 6, 697 (article ID).
Strain(s): 25653699370037014679 
PubMed: 37420035
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05002-x

Kamakura, S., Yamada, K., Arguelles, E. D. L. R., Kuwata, A., Nagumo, T., Takahashi, M., Sawada, K., Ichinomiya, M., Sato, S. 2025 Reminiscent of the pre-diatom? A hitherto undescribed scaly bolidophyte Lepidoparma frigida gen. et sp. nov. in a new order Lepidoparmales based on morphology, phylogeny, and ecology. J. Phycol., 61, 757-776.
Keywords: biomineralization; marine phytoplankton; picoplankton; silica mineralization; taxonomy
Strain(s): 4679 
PubMed: 40536273
DOI: 10.1111/jpy.70043

Ban, H., Endo, H., The EukBank Team, Kuwata, A., Ogata, H. 2024 Global distribution and diversity of marine Parmales. Microbes Environ., 39, ME23093 (article ID).
Keywords: global distribution; metabarcoding; ocean; Parmales
Strain(s): 4679 
PubMed: 38522927
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME23093

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