The 'LB' prefix indicates it is a xenic culture maintained in liquid media.

The 'B' prefix indicates the strain is a xenic culture maintained on an agar slant.

A UTEX catalog number that does not contain a prefix indicates it is an axenic culture maintained on an agar slant. UTEX designates a culture as axenic bas...

You can try using the "search by strain" feature of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) website, to see what other Culture Collect...

Toxic strains are those that produce toxic compounds (e.g. saxitoxins, microcystins, anatoxins, nodularins). There are many strains of algae that produce t...

UTEX has several strains that were reported as toxin producers at the time of deposition. However, toxin production, gas vacuole formation, and growth as c...

The algae are a very diverse group of organisms and taxonomic designations are constantly undergoing revisions. As a result, genus or species designations ...

In some instances, UTEX can use microscopy to identify algal strains to the genus level. However, this is generally not possible if dealing with strains lac...

Please protect our environment by observing proper precautions when disposing algal cultures. UTEX cultures may be discarded safely only after sterilization...

To our knowledge, none of our cyanobacteria strains produce PSTs.