ATCC? Number:50449?
Organism: Tetrahymena thermophila Nanney and McCoy
Designations: inbred strain B, stock IA417
Isolation: homozygous segregant from a genetic cross, 1990
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: ATCCNO: 50449 COMM: 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; moderately temperature sensitive, with substantial expression at 19-29C and more severe expression at 39C, hypoangular allele 2 (hpo2). 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