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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: 7
Width: 3

Culture

Isolation date: 1984
Isolation site: Yamoussoukro
Isolation previous code: Yamoussoukro (Golf1)
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. (1987) Lycopadiene, a tetraterpenoid hydrocarbon from new strains of Botryococcus braunii. Tetrahedron Letters 28: 3931-3934), (Metzger, P., Allard, B., Casadevall, E., Berkaloff, C., Couté, A. (1990). Structure and chemistry of a new chemical race of Botryococcus braunii. JPhycol 26: 258-266), (Berthéas, O., Metzger, P., Largeau, C. (1999) A high molecular weight complex lipid, aliphatic polyaldehyde tetraterpenediol polyacetal from Botryococcus braunii (L race). Phytochemistry 50: 85-96