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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: Equatorial
Habitat: Lake
Country: Côte d'Ivoire

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: 1984
Isolation site: Ayamé
Isolation previous code: Ayamé
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., Casadevall, E., Couté, A. (1988) Botryococcene distribution in strains of the green alga Botryococcus braunii. Phytochemistry 27: 1383-1388), (David, M., Metzger, P., Casadevall, E. (1988) Two cyclobotryococcenes from the B race of the green alga Botryococcus braunii. Phytochemistry 27: 2863-2867), (Senousy, H.H. (2003) A molecular taxonomic and morphological study of the green algal genus Botyrococcus. PhD Thesis, 248pp, University of Newcastle, UK.), (Senousy, H.H., Beakes, G.W., Hack, E. (2004) Phylogenetic placement of Botryococcus braunii (Trebouxiophyceae) and Botryococcus sudeticus isolate UTEX 2629 (Chlorophyceae). Jphycol 40: 412-423