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Introduction
The CAUP Culture Collection was established by B. Fott in 1961. The collection originated by merging a large number of green algal and heterokont cultures isolated by B. Fott with part of the former E.G. Pringsheim's algal culture collection. Presently, the culture collection holds 237 strains of algae and cyanobacteria, with a high proportion of authentic strains. 195 of them are now included in Image database. Since 1981, CAUP Culture Collection is a member of The World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) under No. 486. It is also included in The Federation of Czech and Slovak Culture Collections of Microorganisms (FCCM).
CAUP culture collection represents rather small algal collection. Nevertheles, it holds many taxonomically important strains, e.g. authentic cultures of newly described species. The leading idea of our culture collection is not to conserve a very broad range of organisms, but to serve as a platform for education and taxonomic research in our department. Plans for the near future include the introduction of cryopreservation techniques to preserve a large number of strains isolated during various taxonomic studies, and to continue in detailed image documentation of maintained strains. Moreover, we are currently digitalizing historically valuable permanent slides of mainly diatoms, desmids, etc. deposited in our collection, to make them available for the scientific community.
The CAUP Culture Collection was established by B. Fott in 1961. The collection originated by merging a large number of green algal and heterokont cultures isolated by B. Fott with part of the former E.G. Pringsheim's algal culture collection. Presently, the culture collection holds 237 strains of algae and cyanobacteria, with a high proportion of authentic strains. 195 of them are now included in Image database. Since 1981, CAUP Culture Collection is a member of The World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) under No. 486. It is also included in The Federation of Czech and Slovak Culture Collections of Microorganisms (FCCM).
CAUP culture collection represents rather small algal collection. Nevertheles, it holds many taxonomically important strains, e.g. authentic cultures of newly described species. The leading idea of our culture collection is not to conserve a very broad range of organisms, but to serve as a platform for education and taxonomic research in our department. Plans for the near future include the introduction of cryopreservation techniques to preserve a large number of strains isolated during various taxonomic studies, and to continue in detailed image documentation of maintained strains. Moreover, we are currently digitalizing historically valuable permanent slides of mainly diatoms, desmids, etc. deposited in our collection, to make them available for the scientific community.
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Basic statistics of deposited strains |
Features and interests: |
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| New accessions: | |||
| H 8401 | Leptochlorella corticola | bark of a Cupressus sempervirens, Slovenia | 07-02-2013 |
| H 7902 | Kalinella apyrenoidosa | bark of a Laurus nobilis, Slovenia | 07-02-2013 |
| H 8001 | Hylodesmus singaporensis | tropical forest, Singapore | 07-02-2013 |
| B 707 | Synura conopea | Babín pool, Žďárské vrchy, Czech Republic | 09-06-2012 |
| B 705 | Synura truttae | forest pool, České Švýcarsko, Czech Republic | 09-06-2012 |
| B 704 | Synura glabra | alluvial pool, Modřany, Prague, Czech Republic | 09-06-2012 |
| B 703 | Synura petersenii | Babín pool, Žďárské vrchy, Czech Republic | 09-06-2012 |
| Recent taxonomic updates: | |||
| H 6504 | Chromochloris zofingiensis | formerly as Mychonastes zofingiensis | 02-04-2012 |
| H 6503 | Chromochloris zofingiensis | formerly as Mychonastes zofingiensis | 02-04-2012 |
| H 6006 | Chromochloris zofingiensis | formerly as Mychonastes zofingiensis | 02-04-2012 |
| K 606 | Micrasterias semiradiata | formerly as Micrasterias truncata | 29-11-2011 |
| Last modified on: | Copyright © Pavel Škaloud |