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. 2010 Apr 16;8(4):1273–1291. doi: 10.3390/md8041273

Table 2.

Origin of the cultures used in the screening study together with media used for growing and the number of cells harvested for extracting and quantifying MAAs expressed to two significant figures.

Culture Group a Culture code Culture medium Cells harvested (number * 106)
Thalassiosira weissflogii Bacillariophyceae INT f/2-Si 23
Phaeodactylum tricornutum PLY 100 f/2-Si 9000
Chlorarachnion reptans Chlorarachniophyceae CCAP 815/1 f/2 10
Chlamydomonas concordia Chlorophyceae PLY 491 f/2 45
Dunaliella tertiolecta PLY 83 f/2 not quantified
Ruttnera maritima Chrysophyceae PLY 177 QA 120
Pelagococcus subviridis PLY 542 f/2 590
Cryptomonas maculata Cryptophyceae PLY 175 f/2 95
Chroomonas salina PLY 544 f/2 210
Rhinomonas reticulata PLY 358 Q/A 4.6
Hemiselmis brunnescens PLY 14 Erdschreiber 17
bNostoc commune Cyanophyta CCAP 1453/24 BG11 240
Amphidinium carterae Dinophyceae PLY 127 f/2 3.4
Prorocentrum lima PLY 558A f/2 99
Prorocentrum micans INT f/2 29
Alexandrium tamarense PLY 173A f/2 140
cOxyrrhis marina INT f/2 4.6
Prorocentrum minimum PLY 18B f/2 32
Scrippsiella trochoidea PLY 104 Erdschreiber 5.4
Glenodinium foliaceum PLY 499 Erdschreiber 1.5
Gymnodinium galatheanum PLY 517 Erdschreiber 0.62
Heterocapsa triquetra PLY 169 Erdschreiber 0.05
Gymnodinium venificum PLY 103 Erdschreiber 8
dEuglena gracilis Euglenophyceae INT QA 150
Nannochloropsis oculata Eustigmatophyceae CCAP 849/1 f/2 125000
Nephroselmis rotunda Prasinophyceae PLY 210 QA 150
Phaeocystis globosa Prymnesiophyceae PLY 64 f/2 not quantified
Emiliania huxleyi PLY 92 f/2 580
Isochrysis galbana INT f/2 1300
Heterosigma akashiwo Raphidophyceae PLY 461 f/2 380
Porphyridinium purpureum Rhodophyceae PLY 539 f/2 16
Rhodomonas marina INT f/2 66
Rhodomonas baltica INT f/2 7.6
a

PLY: Plymouth Culture Collection, CCAP: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, INT: sourced at PML;

b

N. commune is a terrestrial cyanobacterium;

c

Culture contained diatoms as food source;

d

E. gracilis is a freshwater species.