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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: Subtropical
Habitat: Lake
Country: France
Region: Martinique

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: 1982
Isolation site: La Manzo
Isolation previous code: MLM1
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, - Metzger, P., Casadevall, E., Pouet, M.J., Pouet, Y. (1985) Structures of some botryococcenes: branched hydrocarbons from the B race of the green alga Botryococcus braunii. Phytochemistry 24: 2995-3002, - 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., Rager, M.-N. & Largeau, C. (2007) Polyacetals based on polymethylsqualene diols, precursors of algaenan in Botryococcus braunii race B. Organic Geochemistry 38: 566-581