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Taxonomy

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

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Origin

Climate zone: Mediterranean
Habitat: Pond
Country: Maroc
Region: Atlas

Identity

Distributed: ✔
Holotype: ✖
Axenic: ✖
Clonal: ✔
Toxicity: Unknown
Aquaculture: ✖
Ecotoxicology: ✖
Teaching: ✖
Ecosystem marker: ✖
rARN 18S sequence available: ✖

Morphology

Flagellate: ✖
Length: 10
Width: 5

Culture

Isolation date: 1983
Isolation site: Oukaimden
Isolation previous code: Oukaimden
Culture medium: L-C
Growth temperature: 27
Bibliography
Senousy, H.H., Beakes, G.W., Hack, E. (2004). Phylogenetic placement of Botryococcus braunii. JPhycol. 40: 412-423), (Metzger, P., Berkaloff, C., Casadevall, E., Couté, A. (1985) Alkadiene- and botryococcene-producing races of wild strains of Botryococcus braunii. Phytochemistry 24: 2305-2312), (Senousy, H.H. (2003) A molecular taxonomic and morphological study of the green algal genus Botyrococcus. PhD Thesis, 248pp, University of Newcastle, UK.), (Metzger, P. & Largeau, C. (2005) Botryococcus braunii: a rich source for hydrocarbons and related ether lipids. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 66: 486-496