General FAQs
General FAQs
The 'LB' prefix indicates it is a xenic culture maintained in liquid media.
Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:05 PM
The 'B' prefix indicates the strain is a xenic culture maintained on an agar slant.
Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:06 PM
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...
Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:12 PM
You can try using the "search by strain" feature of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) website, to see what other Culture Collect...
Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:43 AM
Toxic strains are those that produce toxic compounds (e.g. saxitoxins, microcystins, anatoxins, nodularins). There are many strains of algae that produce t...
Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:23 PM
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...
Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:22 AM
The algae are a very diverse group of organisms and taxonomic designations are constantly undergoing revisions. As a result, genus or species designations ...
Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:24 PM
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...
Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:48 AM
Please protect our environment by observing proper precautions when disposing algal cultures. UTEX cultures may be discarded safely only after sterilization...
Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:29 PM
To our knowledge, none of our cyanobacteria strains produce PSTs.
Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:30 PM