Taxonomy
Division: Haptophyta
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Isochrysidales
Family: Noelhaerabdaceae
Genus: Emiliania
Species: huxleyi
Authority: (Lohmann, 1902) Hay & Mohler, 1967
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Origin
Habitat: Oceanic
Country: Nouvelle-Zélande
Identity
Holotype: No
Axenic: No
Clonal: No
Toxicity: Unknown
Aquaculture: No
Ecotoxicology: No
Teaching: No
Ecosystem marker: No
rARN 18S sequence available: No
Morphology
Wall: Coccosphere
Culture
Isolation previous code: TQ26
Culture medium: K/5
Conservation method: Liquid
Growth temperature: 17
Purity: Yes
Bibliography
- A. Houdan, C. Billard, D. Marie, F. NOt, Saez AG, JR Young, I. Probert (2004) holococcolithophore-heterococcolithophore (Haptophyta) life cycles: flow cytometric analysis of relative ploidy levels. Systematics and biodiversity 1(4): 453-465. - A. Houdan, B. Véron, P. Claquin, S. Lefebvre & J.-M. Poncet. (2005) Cryopreservation of the coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyta, Prymnesiophyceae) – Journal of Applied Phycology 17(5): 413 – 422. - E. Ponis, I. Probert, B. Véron, M. Mathieu and R. Robert. (2006) New microalgae for the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas larvae. Aquaculture 253: 618 - 627. - S. Fiorini, J.-P. Gattuso, P. van Rijswijk, J. Middelburg (2010) Coccolithophores lipid and carbon isotope composition and their variability related to changes in seawater carbonate chemistryJ ournal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 394 : 74–85. - S. Fiorini, J. J. Middelburg and J.-P. Gattuso (2011) TESTING THE EFFECTS OF ELEVATED pCO2 ON COCCOLITHOPHORES (PRYMNESIOPHYCEAE): COMPARISON BETWEEN HAPLOID AND DIPLOID LIFE STAGES. J. Phycol. 47, 1281–1291. - C. Lepere, M. demura, M. Kawachi, S. Romas, I. Probert and D. Vaulot (2011). Whole-genome amplification (WGA) of marine photosynthetic eukaryote populations. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 76 : 512-523. (Strain cited as RCC1216)
