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The CCMP – A National Center (USA)

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The CCMP is the national marine phytoplankton collection, and it is an integral part of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The CCMP maintains over 2500 strains from around the world, the preponderance are marine phytoplankters but we also have benthic, macrophytic, freshwater and heterotrophic organisms.

You can search our online catalog for strains using taxonomic, geographic and other parameters. Strain records have (when available):

–    collection and isolation information
–    culturing medium recipes and growth conditions
–   photographs
–    GenBank accession link
–    collection site map
–    link to the taxonomic database Microscope

 

The CCMP offers a course in phytoplankton culturing techniques and facilities for visiting scientists are available at our laboratories in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Source: https://ccmp.bigelow.org/

The Cawthron Institute Culture Collection of Micro-Algae (CICCM)

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The Cawthron Institute Culture Collection of Micro-Algae is a nationally significant living collection which contains nine classes of micro-algae. Several species are unique to New Zealand or have properties not found in overseas isolates;

1. The collection is the only one of its kind in New Zealand, and highly ranked in the Asia-Pacific region, where it is a member of the Asia Oceania Algae Collection network.
2. The collection underpins many of Cawthron’s research programmes and is also crucial to understanding harmful algae blooms (HABs) identified as a major risk to the shellfish industry. Many strains are now backed up by cyropreservation.
3. The collection supports identification of algae in routine water samples giving industry and public health regulators advance warning of HABs. This has recently been extended to include fresh water bodies that may be contaminated by cyanobacteria.
4. Many of the micro-algae marine biotoxins that have been mass produced for the development of reference standards for regulatory authorities. Examples of the toxins produced by micro-algae in the collection include neurotoxins and diarrhetic toxics such as: 

– saxitoxin
– domoic acid
– palytoxin
– okadaic acid
5. The collection houses micro-algae with the capability to produce valuable bioactive compounds and some of these have only been identified and isolated from New Zealand waters. Pharmaceutical, nutriceutical and agricultural/horticultural uses of these compounds are being investigated.

The micro-algae may be purchased via the Cawthron Collection Curator ( Krystyna Ponikla)

Collection catalogue [PDF 538kb]

Source: http://www.cawthron.org.nz/seafood-safety-biotechnology/micro-algae-culture-collection.html

Australian Natural Algae Culture Collection ( CSIRO )

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ANACC,  formerly the CSIRO Collection of Living Microalgae maintains a database containing information on all strains in the collection.

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Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa ( UK )

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CCAP currently maintains over 2500 strains of algae and protozoa, comprising:
• a wide range of microalgal taxa, including the cyanobacteria
• small thalloid red algae
• a range of small multicellular seaweeds, including over 300 strains of Ectocarpus
• free-living non-pathogenic protozoa
• a small number of ACDP Class II, potentially pathogenic protozoa (all Acanthamoeba spp.)

Strains are primarily maintained by serial sub-culture although about 30% of the algal strains and 2% of the protozoan strains are cryopreserved. In order to maintain genetic stability most effectively, research is continuing to develop protocols to increase the number and diversity of cryopreserved strains throughout the Collection.

All cultures are freshly prepared to order, so when ordering please allow sufficient time for the cultures to be grown. For orders of one culture of each strain, 4 weeks is usually sufficient, but please allow extra time for multiple cultures of each strain, or for strains which are held at CCAP only under cryopreservation (as indicated in the strain data).

Source: http://www.ccap.ac.uk/cultures/cultures.htm