Isochrysis galbana Parke

Publication details
Isochrysis galbana Parke 1949: 265, pl. I: figs 4-10; figs 24-45

Original publication: Parke, M. 1949 (1949). Studies on marine flagellates. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 28: 255-288.

Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Isochrysis.

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

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Isochrysis galbana Parke)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976), Spain (Seoane, Eikrem, Arluzea & Orive 2009).

Source of synonymy
Jordan, R.W., Cros, L. & Young, J.R. (2005). A revised classification scheme for living haptophytes. Micropaleontology 50(Suppl. 1): 55-79.

Key references
Eltgroth, M.L., Watwood, R.L. & Wolfe, G.V. (2005). Production and cellular localization of neutral long-chain lipids in the haptophyte algae Isochrysis galbana and Emiliania huxleyi. Journal of Phycology 41: 1000-1009.

Nakayama, T., Yoshida, M., Noël, M.-H., Kawachi, M. & Inouye, I. (2005). Ultrastructure and phylogenetic position of Chrysoculter rhomhoideus gen. et sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new flagellate haptophyte from Japanese coastal waters. Phycologia 44: 369-383.

Parke, M. & Dixon, P.S. (1976). Check-list of British marine algae - third revision. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 527-594.

Seoane, S., Eikrem, W. Arluzea, J. & Orive, E. (2009). Haptophytes of the Nervión River estuary, northern Spain. Botanica Marina 52: 47-59.

Throndsen, J. (1996). The planktonic marine flagellates. In: Identifying marine phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 591-730. San Diego: Academic Press.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 987 Isochrysis galbana
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CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 927/1 Isochrysis galbana Parke
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SAG Cultures
13.92 Isochrysis galbana

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
As of 2 June 2009, nucleotide sequence data are available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank for 163 samples identified as Isochrysis galbana.

Created: 02 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 March 2010 by Wendy 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.)

Bhatti, S., Huertas, I.E. & Colman, B. (2002). Acquisition of inorganic carbon by the marine haptophyte Isochrysis galbana (Prymesiophyceae). Journal of Phycology 38: 914-921.
Caperon, J. (1968). Population growth response of Isochrysis galbana to nitrate variation at limiting concentrations. Ecology 49: 866-872.
Caperon, J. (1969). Time lag in population growth response of Isochrysis galbana to a variable nitrate environment. Ecology 50: 188-192.
Eltgroth, M.L., Watwood, R.L. & Wolfe, G.V. (2005). Production and cellular localization of neutral long-chain lipids in the haptophyte algae Isochrysis galbana and Emiliania huxleyi. Journal of Phycology 41: 1000-1009.
Falkowski, P.G., Sukenik, A. & Herzig, R. (1989). Nitrogen limitation in Isochrysis galbana (Haptophyceae). II. Relative abundance of chloroplast proteins. Journal of Phycology 25: 471-478, 9 figs, 2 tables.
Flynn, K.J., Zapata, M., Garrido, J.L., Öpik, H. & Hipkin, C.R. (1993). Changes in carbon and nitrogen physiology during ammonium and nitrate nutrition and nitrogen starvation in Isochrysis galbana. European Journal of Phycology 28: 47-52, 6 figs.
Glover, H. (1977). Effects of iron deficiency on Isochrysis galbana (Chrysophyceae) and Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology 13: 208-212, 3 figs, 1 table.
Godet, S., Loiseau, C., Pencreac'h, G., Ergan,F. & Héault, J. (2010). Isolation and sequence analysis of a cDNA encoding a novel putative esterase from the marine microalga Isochrysis galbana (Prymnesiophyceae, Haptophyta) (Note). Journal of Phycology 46(4): 679-684.
Herzig, R. & Falkowski, P.G. (1989). Nitrogen limitation in Isochrysis galbana (Haptophyceae). 1. Photosynthetic energy conversion and growth efficiencies. Journal of Phycology 25: 462-471, 12 figs, 3 tables.
Kang, L.-K., Hwang, S.-P.L., Lin, H.-J., Chen, P-C. & Chang, J. (2009). Establishment of minimal and maximal transcript levels for nitrate transporter genes for detecting nitrogen deficiency in the marine phytoplankton Isochrysis galbana (Prymnesiophyceae) and Thalassiosira pseudonana (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology 45(4): 864-872.
Kang, L.K., Hwang, S.P.L., Gong, G.C., Lin, H.J., Chen P.C. & Chang, J. (2007). Influences of nitrogen deficiency on the transcript levels of ammonium transporter, nitrate transporter and glutamine synthetase genes in Isochrysis galbana (Isochrysidales, Haptophyta). Phycologia 46: 521-533.
López Alonso, D., Segura del Castillo, C.I., García Sánchez, J.L., Sánchez Pérez, J.A. & Garcia Camacho, F. (1994). Quantitative genetics of fatty acid variation in Isochrysis galbana (Prymnesiophyceae) and Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology 30: 553-558, 5 tables.
Sukenik, A. & Livne, A. (1991). Variations in lipid and fatty acid content in relation to acetyl CoA carboxylase in the marine Prymnesiophyte Isochrysis galbana. Plant Cell Physiol 32(3): 371-378.
Swift, D.G. & Taylor, W.R. (1974). Growth of vitamin B₁₂-limited cultures: Thalassiosira pseudonana, Monochrysis lutheri and Isochrysis galbana. Journal of Phycology 10: 385-391, 8 figs, 3 tables.
Zapata, M. & Garrido, J.L. (1997). Occurrence of phytylated chlorophyll c in Isochrysis galbana and Isochrysis sp. (Clone T-ISO) (Prymnesiophyceae). Journal of Phycology 33: 209-214, 3 figs, 3 tables.