Maintenance, Authentication, and Diversification of the ATCC Reference Collection of Protozoans

该奖项继续为美国模式培养收藏所收藏的原生动物和藻类的收集提供部分支持。这些藏品大部分是自由生活的，还有一些寄生的原生动物和那些可以超低温保存的藻类。该藏书向世界研究界分发生物体以及与它们相关的信息。在本资助期内，保管库的目标包括：(1)保持保管库的高质量，(2)在必要时，应用最先进的方法来改进某些菌株的鉴定；(3)应用改进的保存法，以降低成本和促进分配，(4)使保存库多样化，以包括目前尚未持有的主要收费原生动物群体的成员，并扩大代表性较差的群体的保有量，(5)将菌株信息组织到用户社区可访问的计算机数据库中，以及(6)优化其保存物的质量控制。

This award provides continued partial support for the collection of protozoa and algae housed at the American Type Culture Collections. The collection maintains mostly free living and some parasitic protozoa and those algae that can be cryopreserved. The Collection distributes the organisms as well as information associated with them to the world research community. The goals of the Collection during this funding period include: (1) maintain the high level of quality control of the Collection, (2) where necessary, apply state-of-the-art methodologies to improve the authentication of certain strains; (3) apply improved preservation methodologies to lower costs and facilitate distribution, (4) diversify the holdings to include members of major groups of fee-living protozoa not currently held and expand holdings of groups that are poorly represented, (5) organize the strain information into computer databases that are accessible to the user community, and (6) to optimize quality control of its holdings.