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 198 strains of algae and cyanobacteria, with a high proportion of authentic strains. 54 of them are included in Image gallery. 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.
Basic statistics of deposited strains
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Features and interests:
- Two thirds of deposited algae belong to green algal
classes Trebouxiophyceae and Chlorophyceae.
- Chlorella reprsents 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
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| New accessions: |
| H 7901 |
Kalinella bambusicola |
Fort Canning Park, Singapore |
06-10-2009 |
B 701 |
Synura petersenii |
Novohradské Hory, Czech Republic |
04-01-2009 |
B 712 |
Synura echinulata |
Swamp, Czech Republic |
04-01-2009 |
H 7103 |
Elliptochloris bilobata var. corticola |
Cibodas Botanical Garden, Indonesia |
01-10-2008 |