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 246 strains of algae and cyanobacteria, with a high proportion of authentic strains. 203 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 a 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 digitalization of historically valuable permanent slides (mainly of diatoms) deposited in our collection, to make them available for the scientific community.

Basic statistics of deposited strains

Features and interests:     - Two thirds of deposited algae belong to green algal          classes Trebouxiophyceae and Chlorophyceae.     - Chlorella represents the most common cultured genus          (24 strains).     - Collection holds high proportion (32.5%) of authentic          strains.     - Chlorella vulgaris CAUP H1995, isolated in 1889,          represents the oldest maintained microalgal culture.     - CAUP culture collection holds the first Pringsheim's          isolate: Chlorella ellipsoidea CAUP H1990

 

New accessions:
M 401	Monomastix sp.	Te Anau, New Zealand	02-05-2024
H 7402	Coleochlamys apoda	stream flowing from lake, Svalbard, Norway	02-05-2024
G 1401	Ostravamonas chlorostellata	Ostrava, Czech Republic	02-05-2024
Recent taxonomic updates:
H 1104	Neglectella solitaria	formerly as Oocystis solitaria	28-12-2020
H 1106	Neglectella solitaria	formerly as Oocystis solitaria	28-12-2020
H 1906	Jaagichlorella luteoviridis	formerly as Heterochlorella luteoviridis	28-12-2020
H 1963	Jaagichlorella luteoviridis	formerly as Heterochlorella luteoviridis	28-12-2020
H 5502	Oocystidium planoconvexum	formerly as Ooplanctella planoconvexa	28-12-2020
H 8501	Chloroidium laureanum	formerly as Parachloroidium laureanum	28-12-2020
H 8502	Chloroidium lobatum	formerly as Parachloroidium lobatum	28-12-2020
H 8503	Chloroidium lobatum	formerly as Parachloroidium lobatum	28-12-2020