Strain Data

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Strain number NIES-736  
Phylum Chlorophyta  
Class Chlorophyceae  
Scientific name Pleodorina indica (Iyengar) Nozaki  
Synonym  
Former name  
Common name Green alga  
Locality (Date of collection) Mexico  
Latitude / Longitude  
Habitat (Isolation source) (Soil)  
History < Nozaki, Hisayoshi < UTEX  
Isolator (Date of isolation) Morro, S.  
Identified by Nozaki, Hisayoshi (Reidentify)  
State of strain Cryopreservation; Unialgal; Clonal; Axenic[2021 Nov]  
Culture condition
(Preculture condition) 		Medium:  AF-6  
Temperature:  22 C
Light intensity:  21-29 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle:  10L:14D
Duration:  49 D  
Gene information atpB ( AB014006 ) , rbcL ( D86834 AB076088 ) , psaA ( AB044197 ) , psaB ( AB044432 AB044433 ) , psbC ( AB044483 )  
Cell size (min - max) 8 - 15 μm  
Organization Colonial; Flagellate 
Characteristics Phototaxis  
Other strain no. Other collection strain no. : UTEX 1990
 
Remarks Cryopreserved; Axenic 
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Related strain information
(Large number of orders and same genus or species)
Strain number Scientific name Common name Habitat (Isolation source) Characteristics
NIES-4067
 		Pleodorina sphaerica Green alga   Freshwater (Lake water) Phototaxis ; Homothallic ; Dioecious  
NIES-1362
 		Pleodorina starrii Green alga   Freshwater (Lake water) Other water bloom ; Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Anisogamous ; Female  
NIES-577
 		Pleodorina japonica Green alga   Freshwater (Paddy water) Phototaxis ; Authentic strain ; Homothallic ; Dioecious ; Anisogamou ; Harboring rickettsial endosymbionts (Kawafune et al. 2012)  
NIES-735
 		Pleodorina californica Green alga   (Freshwater) Phototaxis  
NIES-576
 		Pleodorina japonica Green alga   Freshwater (Paddy water) Phototaxis  
Related strain information
(Used in same reference)
Strain number Scientific name Common name Habitat (Isolation source) Characteristics
NIES-720
 		Eudorina elegans Green alga   Freshwater (Lake water) Phototaxis ; Heterothallic  
NIES-863
 		Volvox reticuliferus Green alga ; Volvocine alga   Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Dioecious ; Oogamy ; Female  
NIES-418
 		Astrephomene gubernaculifera Green alga   Freshwater (Paddy soil) Phototaxis ; Heterothallic ; Mating type (−) ; Crosses with NIES-419  
NIES-3383
 		Colemanosphaera charkowiensis Green alga   Freshwater (Pond water) Planktonic  
NIES-2863
 		Gonium pectorale Green alga   Freshwater Mixotrophic ; Osmotrophic ; Phototaxis ; Genome decoded strain (Hamaji et al. 2013) ; F3 backcross strain to K41 (originating from K41 x K32 (F1 strains of NIES-1710 x 1711)) ; Heterothallic ; Isogamous ; Mating type (−) ; Resting spore-forming  
Reference
Nozaki, H., Ito, M., Sano, R., Uchida, H., Watanabe, M. M., Takahashi, H., Kuroiwa, T. 1997 Phylogenetic analysis of Yamagishiella and Platydorina (Volvocaceae, Chlorophyta) based on rbcL gene sequences. J. Phycol., 33, 272-278.
Keywords: Chlorophyta; Goniaceae; large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase / oxygenase (rbcL) gene; molecular phylogeny; Platydorina; Volvocaceae; Yamagishiella
Strain(s): 582,  654,  666,  722,  724,  726,  728,  729,  730,  736,  884 
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1997.00272.x

Nozaki, H., Misawa, K., Kajita, T., Kato, M., Nohara, S., Watanabe, M. M. 2000 Origin and evolution of the colonial Volvocales (Chlorophyceae) as inferred from multiple, chloroplast gene sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 17, 256-268.
Strain(s): 418,  456,  460,  474,  541,  545,  564,  566,  569,  571,  572,  574,  577,  582,  653,  654,  666,  720,  721,  722,  724,  725,  727,  728,  730,  731,  732,  734,  735,  736,  737,  851,  854,  872,  882,  884,  886,  887,  888,  889,  890,  893,  895,  896,  898 
PubMed: 11083939
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2000.0831

Nozaki, H., Ohta, N., Takano, H., Watanabe, M. M. 1999 Reexamination of phylogenetic relationships within the colonial Volvocales (Chlorophyta): an analysis of atpB and rbcL gene sequences. J. Phycol., 35, 104-112.
Keywords: atpB gene; Chlorophyta; Gonium; molecular phylogeny; rbcL gene; Volvocaceae; volvocine series; Volvox
Strain(s): 418,  456,  460,  541,  564,  566,  568,  569,  571,  572,  574,  577,  582,  653,  654,  666,  720,  721,  722,  724,  725,  727,  728,  730,  731,  732,  734,  735,  736,  737,  851,  852,  858,  861,  882,  884,  895 
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.3510104.x

Nozaki, H., Ott, F. D., Coleman, A. W. 2006 Morphology, molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of two new species of Pleodorina (Volvocaceae, Chlorophyceae). J. Phycol., 42, 1072-1080.
Keywords: colonial Volvocales; molecular phylogeny; morphology; Pleodorina starrii sp. nov.; Pleodorina thompsonii sp. nov.; taxonomy
Strain(s): 456,  460,  541,  544,  577,  666,  720,  721,  722,  724,  725,  728,  730,  731,  732,  734,  735,  736,  863,  865,  866,  867,  868,  869,  872,  891,  892,  1362,  1363,  4126,  4127 
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00255.x

Lindsey, C. R., Rosenzweing, F., Herron, M. D. 2021 Phylotranscriptomics points to multiple independent origins of multicellularity and cellular differentiation in the volvocine algae. BMC Biol., 19, 182 (article ID).
Keywords: Phylotranscriptomics; Volvocine algae; Green algae; Phylogeny; Multicellularity
Strain(s): 418,  456,  458,  460,  541,  543,  544,  564,  566,  568,  572,  582,  653,  654,  717,  719,  720,  722,  725,  728,  730,  732,  736,  737,  851,  856,  863,  867,  868,  878,  882,  890,  893,  895,  1362,  1363,  2569,  2863,  3383,  4126,  4127,  4128 
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.16.435725

Nozaki, H., Mori, F., Tanaka, Y., Matsuzaki, R., Yamaguchi, H., Kawachi, K., Tanabe, Y. 2026 Cryopreservation of Pleodorina (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) and its rickettsialendosymbionts. Phycologia, 65, 63-68.
Keywords: Cryoprotectant; Endosymbiotic bacteria; Pleodorina japonica; Sexualreproduction; Volvocinealgae
Strain(s): 736,  1362,  4066,  4670,  4672 
DOI: 10.1080/00318884.2026.2624407

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