Extreme Environment Algae are strains of terrestrial algae collected from various extreme environments such as Antarctica and the Gobi Desert. This collection maintained by Dr. Imre Friedmann has been deposited in the Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas. These strains have now been cryopreserved and are maintained in indefinite storage under liquid nitrogen. Some of them are well documented and their characteristics described; others have only been identified to family. Information on the documented strains will be added to this web site as time permits.

Upon request, a living culture of the requested strain will be thawed and shipped in agar, in the same 2-mL cryovial in within which it was cryopreserved. The identifying number of the requested strain should be prefixed with "EE". The requested culture may be ordered in the same way as other cultures are ordered. Representative photos of EE 150 are displayed as thumbnails below. The extreme environment algae collection was deposited in 2003 and formally accessioned into UTEX February 2005.

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