Most of the major algal culture collections have at least a few strains. These include:

• Algobank: Microalgae Strain Bank, Université de Caen, France (Direct link to strain data)

• CCAP: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Windermere and Oban, United Kingdom (Direct link to strain data)

• CCMP: Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA (Direct link to strain data)

• NEPCC: North East Pacific Culture Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Direct link to strain data)

• NIES: Microbial Culture Collection, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

• SAG: Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Göttingen, Germany (Search engine)

• UTEX: Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas, Austin, TX (Direct link to strain data)

A few species are easy to cultivate, others are more difficult. A few strains have been rendered axenic.

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