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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 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.
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 |
Features and interests: |
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| 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 |
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