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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Grattan Road, Galway, Ireland; at edge of a gravel path near the sea. 29 Oct 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

La Cayenne, French Guyana; public cemetery. Forming loose masses on soil, mixed with grass and mosses. 25 Jun 2006. Fabio Rindi. © Fabio Rindi.

La Cayenne, French Guyana; public cemetery. Growing on soil, mixed with grass and mosses. 25 Jun 2006. Fabio Rindi. © Fabio Rindi.

Upper Canal Road, Galway City, Ireland. Forming loose brown masses on gravel, mixed with mosses. 22 May 2005. Fabio Rindi. © Fabio Rindi.

Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault La Cayenne, French Guyana; public cemetery. Growing 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 (Vaucher) Gaillon
Tremella nostoc Linnaeus 1753
Nostoc commune Vaucher 1803
Nostoc kurzianum Zeller 1873

General environment
This is a Freshwater/Terrestrial species.

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: Czech Republic (Reháková, K. et al. 2007), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Rindi & Guiry 2003), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Vidal, Jara, Hernández, Martinez-Germes & Hernández 1982, Bárbara et al. 2005).

North America: USA (O'Brien et al 2006).

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

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

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), New Zealand (Chapman 1956), Queensland (Day et al. 1995, Phillips 2002), South Australia (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).

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
1453-3 Nostoc commune
1453-5 Nostoc commune

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
As of 2 June 2009, nucleotide sequence data are available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank for 132 samples identified as Nostoc commune.

Created: 29 January 2001 by M.D. Guiry

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

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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.
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.
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.
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.