Strains may be obtained by contacting:

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

• BNCA: Brazilian National Catalogue of Strains - Algae (Search engine)

• 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, ME, USA (Direct link to strain data)

• IPPAS: Culture Collection of Microalgae, Moscow, Russia (Search engine)

• NEPCC: Northeast Pacific Culture Collection, Vancouver, BC, 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)

• UTCC: University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria (List of Cultures)

• UTEX: Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin:
  • Link to data for strains listed as Platymonas
  • Link to data for strains listed as Tetraselmis

Some strains are axenic. Cultivation in liquid media in the light is generally easy.

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