Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton

这一奖项重申了对普罗瓦索利-吉拉德国家海洋浮游植物培养中心(CCMP)的支持，CCMP是一个服务集合，作为接收、维护和分发海洋浮游植物活培养物的中央储存库。海洋、海湾、入海口和其他海洋生物栖息地覆盖了地球表面的71%。在这些环境中发现的海洋浮游植物约占地球光合作用的40%，并(直接或间接)为大多数海洋动物提供食物。CCMP是世界上最大的海洋浮游植物养殖场。该中心目前拥有大约2000株单细胞藻类。在过去的5年里，CCMP的持有量增长了约25%，同时它以适中的费用为科学家和水产养殖者提供了大约8000种养殖。菌株通过连续培养保持，或以冷冻形式保存在液氮上。CCMP维护一个网站，提供关于其收集的菌株的信息，包括许多菌株的数字图像、分类信息、菌株培养和冷冻保存的方案、文献参考资料以及与其他相关在线信息来源的链接，如GenBank。

This award renews support for the Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP), a service collection that serves as a central repository to receive, maintain and distribute living cultures of marine phytoplankton. Oceans, seas, bays, estuaries, and other marine habitats cover 71% of the Earth's surface. The marine phytoplankton found in these environments account for approximately 40% of the Earth's photosynthesis and provide food (directly or indirectly) for most marine animals. The CCMP is the world's largest culture collection dedicated to marine phytoplankton. The Center currently holds approximately 2000 strains of single-celled algae. During the past 5 years, the CCMP's holdings have grown by about 25% while it has provided approximately 8000 cultures to scientists and aquaculturists at a modest charge. Strains are maintained through serial culture or are held in frozen form over liquid nitrogen. The CCMP maintains a website that provides information about the strains in its collection and includes digital images of many strains, taxonomic information, protocols for culturing and cryopreservation of strains, literature references and links to other relevant online sources of information such as GENBANK.