ATCC® Number:30972™
Organism: Heteramoeba clara Droop
Designations: CCAP 1536/1
Isolation: Alisa Craig Island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, 1960
Depositors: W Balamuth
History: ATCC<<--W Balamuth<<--F. Page <<--- M.R. Droop
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: dried
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 994: Marine ameba mediumTemperature: 25.0°C Protocol: ATCCNO: 30972 SPEC: Aseptically add 1 ml of sterile seawater to the inner shell vial, remove the filter paper aseptically with a pair of forceps, and place it in the center of an agar plate of ATCCmedium 994. Add the liquid remaining in the vial to the plate and spread it evenly over the surface of the plate. Incubate the plate at 25C. Trophozoites (amebae) should be evident within 2-3 days.
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Type Strain: yes(type strain)
References: 4770: Rogers WE, Wallace FG. Two new subspecies of Herpetomonas muscarum (Leidy, 1856) Kent, 1880. J. Protozool. 18: 645-654, 1971. PubMed: 4109037 20824: Droop MR. Heteramoeba clara n.gen., n.sp., a sexual biphasic Amoeba. Arch. Mikrobiol. 42: 254-266, 1962. PubMed: 13887912 23840: Carey PG, Page FC. A light- and electron microscopical study of the marine amoeboflagellate Heteramoeba clara Doop 1962. Arch. Protistenkd. 130: 313-328, 1985. 70798: Silberman JD, et al. Retortamonad flagellates are closely related to diplomonads--implications for the history of mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 777-786, 2002. PubMed: 11961110
ATCC30972
