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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776791/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35058560; https://doi.org/10.1038/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...