The macroalgal culture collection in Kobe University (KU-MACC) and a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of macroalgae based on the culture strains

Figures & data

Figure 1. Kobe University Macroalgal Culture Collection (KU-MACC). (a) Top page of web site, (b) illuminated incubator for stock culture, (c) transparent box for tubes of stock culture, (d) stock culture, (e) programable-rate freezer for cryopreservation, (f) liquid nitrogen sample storage tanks for cryopreserved cultures of KU-MACC and (g) backup of NIES.

Figure 2. Micrographs of selected strains in KU-MACC. (a) KU-3047, Acrosiphonia spinescens (b) KU-1613, Ulva linza (c) KU-2994, Bryopsis corticulans (d) KU-1518, Codium hubbsii (e) KU-1152, Choristocarpus tenellus (f) KU-1072, Dictyopteris latiuscula (g) KU-1451, Macrocystis pyrifera (h) KU-1372, Ectocarpus siliculosus (i) KU-1335, Ectocarpus sp. (j) KU-1859, Pyropia tenera (k) KU-3141, Dasya sinicola (l) KU-2598, Galaxaura sp. (m) KU-948, Polysiphonia senticulosa (n) KU-971, Delesseria serrulata. Scale = 10 µm.

Figure 3. Maximum likelihood (ML) molecular phylogenetic tree of Ulvophyceae based on chloroplast rbcL gene sequences of KU-MACC culture strains (indicated by green letters) and published sequences (black letters).

Figure 4. Maximum likelihood (ML) molecular phylogenetic tree of Phaeophyceae based on mitochondrial cox3 gene sequences of KU-MACC culture strains (indicated by brown letters) and published sequences (black letters).

Figure 5. Maximum likelihood (ML) molecular phylogenetic tree of Rhodophyta based on chloroplast rbcL gene sequences of KU-MACC culture strains (indicated by red letters) and published sequences (black letters).