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Dataset: Symbiodinium culture collection
Deployment: Coffroth_2010

Cnidarian symbiont culture collection, BURRCC
Principal Investigator: 
Mary Alice Coffroth (State University of New York at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
2015-01-15
Version Date: 
2015-01-15
Data URL:
 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/546059/data

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Description

Summary of Symbiodinium cultures in the BURR Culture Collection with symbiont phylotype based on variation in the chloroplast 23S-rDNA. Collections made world-wide; cultures are maintained at the University at Buffalo. Cultures are available to researchers for a nominal charge. Contact coffroth@buffalo.edu for further information.

This dataset provides the Symbiodinium clade (Rowan and Powers, 1991, Science 251: 1348-1351) and variation in domain V of the chloroplast 23S rDNA (Santos et al 2003, Mar.Biotech. 5:130-140).

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