Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Nostocophycideae
Order Nostocales
Family Nostocaceae
Genus Nostoc

Pictures

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Prox. Shows a very young colony 'germling' with visible sheaths and the remains of a 'spore'. Blisworth, Northamptonshire, UK. In a churchyard. Sample collected by Rachel Carter.. 03 Jun 2008. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

View through squash of a large colony. Yardley Chase, Northamptonshire, UK, on a damp pathway.. 03 Aug 2006. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Heterocysts. Yardley Chase, Northamptonshire, UK, on a damp pathway.. 03 Aug 2006. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Prox: form in leaf pockets of Phaeoceros (Hornwort). Wakehurst Place, Sussex.. 03 Sep 2009. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Loughcrew House Oldcastle Co. Meath Ireland; on gravel path near grass. 18 Oct 2011. Charles Naper. © Charles Naper.

Loughcrew House Oldcastle Co. Meath. 18 Oct 2011. Charles Naper. © Charles Naper.

Loughcrew House Oldcastle Co. Meath Ireland; between cobble. 18 Oct 2011. Charles Naper. © Charles Naper.

Loughcrew House Oldcastle Co. Meath. 18 Oct 2011. Charles Naper. © Charles Naper.

Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland; microscope of lower side of growths. 24 May 2011. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Upper Canal Road, Galway City, Ireland. Forming loose brown masses on gravel, mixed with mosses. 22 May 2005. Fabio Rindi. © Fabio Rindi (f.rindi@univpm.it).

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Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault La Cayenne, French Guyana; public cemetery. Forming loose masses on soil, mixed with grass and mosses

Publication details
Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault 1888: 203

Original publication: Bornet, É. & Flahault, C. (1886 '1888'). Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 7: 177-262.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Nostoc.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Origin of species name
common.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Nostocella communis Gaillon
Tremella nostoc Linnaeus 1753
Ulva pruniformis Linnaeus 1753
Nostoc commune Vaucher 1803
Nostoc kurzianum Zeller 1873

General environment
This is a Freshwater/Terrestrial species.

Common names

(as Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault)
Chinese: Ke-Sien-Mi (Chapman & Chapman 1980), Koxianmi (Lembi & Waaland 1988).

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Nostoc commune Vaucher)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Aboal & Llimona 1984b, Aboal 1988, Alvarez-Cobelas & Gallardo 1988, Calvo, Bárbara & Cremades 1999, Calvo & Bárbara 2002).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

(as Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault)
Arctic: Ellesmere Island (Croasdale 1973).

Ireland: Cork (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Czech Republic (Reháková, K. et al. 2007), Germany (Täuscher 2011), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Rindi & Guiry 2003), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Vidal, Jara, Hernández, Martinez-Germes & Hernández 1982, Bárbara et al. 2005).

North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), USA (O'Brien et al 2006).

South-west Asia: Israel (Vinogradova et al. 2000), Pakistan (Leghari et al. 2005), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: China (Chen et al. 2011).

South-east Asia: Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), New Zealand (Chapman 1956, Broady & Merican 2012), Queensland (Day et al. 1995, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), South Australia (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: East Antarctica (Kosugi et al. 2010).

Key references
Ivimey-Cook, R.B. (1965). The vegetation of solution cups in the limestone of the Burren, Co. Clare. Journal of Ecology 53: 437-445.

Leghari, M.K., Qureshi, R.M., Mashiatullah, A., Yaqoob, N. & Javed, T. (2005). Harmful algal species from various freshwater localities of Pakistan. Int. J. Phycol. Phycochem. 1(2): 199-206.

O'Brien, H.E., Miadlikowska, J. & Lutzoni, F. (2006). Assessing host specialization in symbiotic cyanobacteria associated with four closely related species of the lichen fungus Peltigera. European Journal of Phycology 40: 363-378.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture 584 Nostoc commune
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CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1453/24 Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Nostoc&species=commune

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Nostoc&Species=commune

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 29 January 2001 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 21 October 2007 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 6125 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Abdelahad, N. & Bazzichelli, G. (1989). Ultrastructure and development of "coccoid cells" of Nostoc commune (Cyanophyta). British Phycological Journal 24: 217-222.
Aboal, M., Cristobal, J.C. & Marín-Murcia, J.P. (2010). Sobre la presencia de Nostoc commune var. flagelliforme (Nostocaceae, Cyanophyceae) en suelos arcillosos de regiones áridas del Sureste español. Acta Botanica Malacitana 35: 156-161.
Brüll, L.P., Huang, Z., Thomas-Oates, J.E., Smestad Paulsen, B., Cohen, E.H. & Michealsen, T.E. (2000). Studies of polysaccharides from three edible species of Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) with different colony morphologies: structural characterization and effect on the complement system of polysaccharides from Nostoc commune. Journal of Phycology 36: 871-881.
Chen, Z., Lu, G., Chen, S. & Chen, X. (2011). Light dependency of photosynthetic recovery during wetting and the acclimation of photosynthetic apparatus to light fluctuation in a terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune. Journal of Phycology 47(5): 1063-1071.
Coxson, D.S. & Kershaw, K.A. (1983). Rehydration response of nitrogenase activity and carbon fixation in terrestrial Nostoc commune from Stipa bouteloa grassland. Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 2658-2668.
Coxson, D.S. & Kershaw, K.A. (1983). The pattern of in situ nitrogenase activity and carbon fixation in terrestrial Nostoc commune from Stipa bouteloa grassland. Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 2686-2693.
Davey, A. & Marchant, H.J. (1983). Seasonal variation in nitrogen fixation by Nostoc commune Vaucher at the Vestold Hills, Antarctica. Phycologia 22: 377-385, 5 figs, 3 tables.
Horne, A.J. (1970). The role of Nostoc commune in the nitrogen budget of an Antarctic island. British Phycological Journal 5: 268-269.
Sakamoto, T., Yoshida, T., Arima, H., Hatanaka, Y., Takani, Y. & Tamaru, Y. (2009). Accumulation of trehalose in response to desiccation and salt stress in the terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune. Phycological Research 57(1): 66-73.
Scherer, S. & Z.P. Zhong (1991). Dessication independance of terrestrial Nostoc commune ecotypes (Cyanobacteria). Microbial Ecology 22(1): 271-283.
Whitton, B.A., Potts, M., Simon, J.W. & Grainger, S.L.J. (1990). Phosphatase activity of the blue-green alga (cyanobacterium) Nostoc commune UTEX-584. Phycologia 29: 139-145.
Wright, D., Prickett, T., Heim, R.F. & Potts, M. (2001). Form species Nostoc commune (Cyanobacteria). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 51: 1839-1852.
Wright, D., Prickett, T., Helm, R.F. & M. Potts (2001). Form species Nostoc commune (Cyanobacteria). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 51: 1839-1852.

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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 May 2013.

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