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AC758 Botryococcus braunii

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Plantae
Division	Chlorophyta
Class	Trebouxiophyceae
Order	Trebouxiales
Family	Botryococcaceae
Genus	Botryococcus
Species	braunii
Authority(ies)	Kützing

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Origin

Climatic Zone	Tropical
Habitat	Lake
Continent	-
Country	Bolivie
Region	La Paz
Geolocation Latitude Longitude	- -

Identity

Holotype	No
Equivalent code	-
Deposited by	-
Deposit date	28 octobre 2008
Identified by	-

Morphology

Length (µm)	10 µm
Width (µm)	5 µm
Diameter	-
Wall	-
Comments	-

Culture

Isolated by	Metzger
Isolation date	1986
Isolation site	Challapata
Culture medium	L-C Download Pdf
Growth temperature	27 °C
Growth light	-
Toxicity	Unproven

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Genbank accession number	-
References	Senousy, H.H., Beakes, G.W., Hack, E. (2004). Phylogenetic placement of Botryococcus braunii. JPhycol. 40: 412-423), (Metzger, P., Villareal-Rosales, E., Casadevall, E., Couté, A. (1989) Hydrocarbons, aldehydes and triacylglycerols in some strains of the A race of the green alga Botryococcus braunii. Phytochemistry 28: 2349-2353