ATCC? Number:50450?
Organism: Tetrahymena thermophila Nanney and McCoy
Designations: inbred strain B, stock IA466
Isolation: homozygous segregant from a genetic cross, 1988
Depositors: J Frankel
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: test tube
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 357: Tetrahymena mediumTemperature: 25.0°C Duration: axenic
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Comments: Phenotype: A pleiotropic cytogeometric abnormality, with frequent side-by-side oral primordia to the cell's right relative to the old oral apparatus, and reduced distance between the oral primordium and the contractile vacuole pores; strongly temperature II
Classification: KINGDOM: Protozoa
References: 5016: Frankel J, et al. Hypoangular: a gene potentially involved in specifying positional information in a ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila. Dev. Biol. 160: 333-354, 1993. PubMed: 8253268