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Resources
This page provides links to culture collections, reference materials, professional societies and journals, and books. For general information on Chlamydomonas (what is it, what is it good for) and pages about algae, photosynthesis, etc., also see the about Chlamydomonas page.
Chlamydomonas Resource Center
- The Chlamydomonas Resource Center collection is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and is located at the University of Minnesota. Holdings include more than 2400 strains of Chlamydomonas (primarily C. reinhardtii wild type and mutants), more than 200 plasmids, and several cDNA libraries.
Other Algal Collections with Chlamydomonas Accessions
- SAG - Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Göttingen, Germany
- UTEX - University of Texas at Austin
- CCAP - Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa, UK
- ATCC - American Type Culture Collection
- CCMP - Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton
- NIES - Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
This now includes the former IAM collection.
- CPCC - Canadian Phycological Culture Centre
(formerly the University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria)
- ACOI - Coimbra Collection of Algae, Portugal
- CCAC - Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne
- CCALA - Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms, the Centre of Phycology, Czech Republic
- CAUP - Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- PLY - Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Algae, UK
- RCC - Roscoff Culture Collection of Marine Phytoplankton, France
Additional Culture Collection Resources
Societies and Journals
Newsgroups and E-mail Lists
Books
- The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook, Second Edition, published November 2008 (copyright date 2009). Available from Elsevier Science and Technology. From the home page, a search for "Chlamydomonas" will retrieve the information on how to order. The three volumes can be purchased individually, or as a set.
Volume 1, by Elizabeth H. Harris: Introduction to Chlamydomonas and Its Laboratory Use
Volume 2, edited by David B. Stern: Organellar and Metabolic Processes
Volume 3, edited by George B. Witman: Cell Motility and Behavior
index to Elsevier's Companion web site, with methods files for photosynthesis research, and many videos that supplement volume 3.
- Transgenic Microalgae as Green Cell Factories. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 616. Edited by Rosa León, Aurora Galván, and Emilio Fernández, published in 2007 by Landes Bioscience and Springer Science_Business Media, LLC, New York.
- The Molecular Biology of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria in Chlamydomonas., Edited by Jean-David Rochaix, Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont and Sabeeha Merchant, published in 1998 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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