Strong and widespread cycloheximide resistance in Stichococcus-like eukaryotic algal taxa

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Syuhada, Nur Hidayu, Merican, Faradina, Zaki, Syazana, Broady, Paul A., Convey, Peter, Muangmai, Narongrit
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; Arctic; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527522/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527522/1/s41598-022-05116-y.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05116-y

This study was initiated following the serendipitous discovery of a unialgal culture of a Stichococcus-like green alga (Chlorophyta) newly isolated from soil collected on Signy Island (maritime Antarctica) in growth medium supplemented with 100 µg/mL cycloheximide (CHX, a widely used antibiotic acti...