Atlas of picocyanobacteria monoclonal strains from the collection of CNR-IRSA, Italy

Cristiana Callieri; Edoardo Mandolini; Roberto Bertoni; Rosaria Lauceri; Antonio Picazo; Antonio Camacho; Pedro Jose Cabello-Yeves

doi:10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2002

https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2002

Cristiana Callieri | cristiana.callieri@irsa.cnr.it National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Water Research (IRSA), Verbania, Italy. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5669-5724
Edoardo Mandolini Department of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Austria. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3975-614X
Roberto Bertoni National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Water Research (IRSA), Verbania, Italy.
Rosaria Lauceri National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Water Research (IRSA), Verbania, Italy. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6370-3980
Antonio Picazo Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain.
Antonio Camacho Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0841-2010
Pedro Jose Cabello-Yeves Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiología, Universidad Miguel, Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.

Abstract

This atlas aims to provide an overview of the picocyanobacteria cultures hold by the CNR-IRSA collection. These are monoclonal strains mostly of the genera Synechococcus and Cyanobium. These strains were mainly isolated from lakes of different trophic status around the globe and, so far, they are not available in other collections of algae and (pico)cyanobacteria. Here we summarise the main characteristics of these strains, including some previously published data, and offer most of the strains as material available for research to every scientists upon request.