CCAP: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Windermere and Oban, United Kingdom (Direct link to strain data)
CCMP: Provasoli-Guillard Culture Center for Marine Phytoplankton, West Boothbay Harbor, ME, USA (Direct link to strain data for class Cryptophyceae)
NEPCC: Northeast Pacific Culture Collection, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Direct link to strain data for class Cryptophyceae)
NIES: Microbial Culture Collection, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
SAG: Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Göttingen, Germany (Direct link to strain data for class Cryptophyceae)
UTCC: University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria (Direct link to culture list, including Cryptomonas strain data)
UTEX: Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas, Austin, TX
Direct link to strain data for:
Some strains are easy to cultivate, but most are more difficult than, say, Chlamydomonas. A few strains are available as axenic cultures.
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