Strain number NIES-477  
Phylum Streptophyta  
Class Mesostigmatophyceae  
Scientific name Mesostigma viride Lauterborn  
Synonym  
Former name  
Common name  
Locality (Date of collection) Yoshino Park, Mitsukaido, Ibaraki, Japan (1986-01-17)  
Latitude / Longitude 36.075731 / 140.001211 
Habitat (Isolation source) Freshwater (Pond sediment)  
History < Suda, Shoichiro  
Isolator (Date of isolation) Suda, Shoichiro (1986-12-13)  
Identified by Suda, Shoichiro  
State of strain Subculture; Unialgal; Clonal; Axenic[2017 Dec]  
Culture condition
(Preculture condition)
Medium:  AF-6  
Temperature:  20 C
Light intensity:  10-15 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle:  10L:14D
Duration:  1 M  
Gene information Plastid genome ( OR168112 ) , CO1 ( HQ668014 ) , GAPDH ( HQ668010 )  
Cell size (min - max)  
Organization Unicellular; Flagellate 
Characteristics Heterothallic ; Mating type (−) ; Genome decoded strain (Glass, S. E. et al. 2023)  
Other strain no. Other strain no. : KY-Mes-3  
Remarks Unstable; Fragile species to transportation stresses; Read and agree "How to order 4.1"; Axenic 
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Related strain information
(Large number of orders and same genus or species)
Reference
Matsunaga, S., Watanabe, S., Sakaushi, S., Miyamura, S., Hori, T. 2003 Screening effect diverts the swimming directions from diaphototactic to positive phototactic in a disk-shaped green flagellate Mesostigma viride. Photochem. Photobiol., 77, 324-332.
Strain(s): 476477 
PubMed: 12685662
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0324:SEDTSD>2.0.CO;2

Yoshii, Y., Takaichi, S., Maoka, T., Inouye, I. 2003 Photosynthetic pigment composition in the primitive green alga Mesostigma viride (Prasinophyceae): phylogenetic and evolutionary implications. J. Phycol., 39, 570-576.
Keywords: abscisic acid; carotenoid; Mesostigma; neoxanthin; siphonaxanthin; siphonaxanthin ester
Strain(s): 296475476477 
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.02098.x

Glass, S. E., McCourt, R. M., Gottschalk, S. D., Lewis, L. A., Karol, K. G. 2023 Chloroplast genome evolution and phylogeny of the early-diverging charophycean green algae with a focus on the Klebsormidiophyceae and Streptofilum. J. Phycol., 59, 1133-1146.
Keywords: algae; Charophyta; cryptic species; Entransia; green algae; Hormidiella; Interfilum; Klebsormidium; Streptosarcina; systematics
Strain(s): 477 
PubMed: 37548118
DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13359

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