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| UTEX Number: | 3054 |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| Strain: | Gloeocapsopsis sp. |
| Medium: | BG-11 Medium (BG-11) |
| Origin: | Chile |
| Description of Location: | The strain was collected from a hypolithic microbial community from a quartz rock in the coastal Atacama Desert. The site was located 22 km south of the city of Antofagasta, in the eastern slope of the hills of the Coastal Range and about 1.5 km from the Pacific Ocean. |
| GPS: | 23° 48′59″ S, 70° 29′25″ W, elevation 537 m |
| Type Culture: | No |
| Collection: | Armando Azua-Bustos |
| Isolation: | Catalina Urrejola (2011) |
| Isolator Number: | 1H9 |
| Deposition: | Catalina Urrejola (1/30/2017) |
| Relatives: | |
| Also Known As: | Gloeocapsopsis dulcis strain AAB1 |
| Notes: | Azua-Bustos A, Zúñiga J, Arenas-Fajardo C, Orellana M, Salas L, Rafael V. (2014) Gloeocapsopsis AAB1, an extremely desiccation-tolerant cyanobacterium isolated from the Atacama Desert. Extremophiles. 18(1):61-74. doi: 10.1007/s00792-013-0592-y. Moore RA, Azua-Bustos A, González-Silva C, Carr CE. (2023) Unveiling metabolic pathways involved in the extreme desiccation tolerance of an Atacama cyanobacterium. Sci Rep. 13(1):15767. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-41879-8. |
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