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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: Temperate
Habitat: Pool
Country: France
Region: Bourgogne

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: 1981
Isolation site: Lingoult-Morvan
Isolation previous code: Lingoult
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