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 245 strains of algae and cyanobacteria, with a high proportion of authentic strains. 202 of them are now included in Image database. 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 a 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 digitalization of historically valuable permanent slides (mainly of
diatoms) deposited in our collection, to make them available for the scientific community.
diversity
origin
biotope
Basic statistics of deposited strains
Features and interests:
- Two thirds of deposited algae belong to green algal
classes Trebouxiophyceae and Chlorophyceae.
- Chlorella represents 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
age of maintained strains
New accessions:
M 401
Monomastix sp.
Te Anau, New Zealand
02-05-2024
H 7402
Coleochlamys apoda
stream flowing from lake, Svalbard, Norway
02-05-2024
G 1401
Ostravamonas chlorostellata
Ostrava, Czech Republic
02-05-2024
Recent taxonomic updates:
H 1104
Neglectella solitaria
formerly as Oocystis solitaria
28-12-2020
H 1106
Neglectella solitaria
formerly as Oocystis solitaria
28-12-2020
H 1906
Jaagichlorella luteoviridis
formerly as Heterochlorella luteoviridis
28-12-2020
H 1963
Jaagichlorella luteoviridis
formerly as Heterochlorella luteoviridis
28-12-2020
H 5502
Oocystidium planoconvexum
formerly as Ooplanctella planoconvexa
28-12-2020
H 8501
Chloroidium laureanum
formerly as Parachloroidium laureanum
28-12-2020
H 8502
Chloroidium lobatum
formerly as Parachloroidium lobatum
28-12-2020
H 8503
Chloroidium lobatum
formerly as Parachloroidium lobatum
28-12-2020