Table 1. Information of the culture collections providers of Botryococcus braunii strains and location of origin.

Culture collection	Botryococcus braunii strain (our abbreviation)	Race	Location	Isolation, date of isolation	Reference
Berkeley	Showa	Race B	Culturing tanks, Berkley	By unknown, 1980	Nonomura (1988)
Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (SCCAP)	K1489	Race A	Belgium, Nieuwoort	By G. Hansen, 2008	No reference
UTEX Culture Collection of Algae	UTEX LB572 (UTEX)	Race A	Cambridge, England	By M. R. Droop, 1950	Eroglu, Okada & Melis (2011)
Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms (CCALA)	CCALA778 (CCALA)	Unknown	Serra da Estrela (Barragem da Erva da Fome) Portugal	By Santos, 1997	No reference found
Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP)	CCAP807/2 (CCAP)	Race A	Grasmere, Cumbria, England	By Jaworski, 1984	Hilton, Rigg & Jaworski (1988)
ALGOBANK-CAEN	AC755	Race A	Lingoult-Morvan, France	By Pierre Metzger, 1981	Metzger et al. (1985)
	AC759	Race B	Ayame, Ivory Coast	By Pierre Metzger, 1984	Metzger, Casadevall & Coute (1988)
	AC760	Race B	Kossou, Ivory Coast	By Pierre Metzger, 1984	Metzger, Casadevall & Coute (1988)
	AC761	Race B	Paquemar, Martinique, France	By Pierre Metzger, 1983	Metzger et al. (1985)
	AC765	Race L	Kossou, Ivory Coast	By Pierre Metzger, 1984	Metzger, Casadevall & Coute (1988)
	AC767	Race L	Songkla Nakarin, Thailand	By Pierre Metzger, 1985	Metzger & Casadevall (1987)
	AC768	Race L	Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast	By Pierre Metzger, 1984	Metzger & Casadevall (1987)