A major repository of Chlamydomonas cultures, especially for mutants and other strains frequently used in research, is at the Chlamydomonas Genetics Center at Duke University. Information on the strains maintained at the Chlamydomonas Genetics Center is available via The Chlamydomonas Database ("ChlamyDB"). ChlamyDB also keeps a database of strains from other collections.
Other major repositories:
ATCC: American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia, USA:
CCALA: Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms, Trebon, Czech Republic (Direct link to strain data)
CCAP: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Windermere and Oban, United Kingdom
CCMP: Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton, West Boothbay Harbor, ME, USA (Direct link to strain data)
IAM: Institute of Applied Microbiology Culture Collection, University of Tokyo, Japan
IPPAS: Culture Collection of Microalgae, Moscow, Russia (Search engine)
NEPCC: Northeast Pacific Culture Collection, Vancouver, BC, Canada
NIES: Microbial Culture Collection, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
SAG: Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Göttingen, Germany
UTEX: Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA:
Many strains, including practically all used in research involving genetics, are axenic and sexually competent. Cultivation on liquid or solid media in the light is generally easy, and some strains will grow well in the dark as heterotrophs.
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