Culture Deposit

Note: There is no charge for deposit into the general collection. By arrangement, cultures may be accepted for deposit but withheld from general distribution if publication is incomplete.

For culture deposit with restricted access, see our Safe Deposit service.

Please send cultures together with information about them. Complete the Culture Submission Form and send by email attachment to lynne.sigler@ualberta.ca. Also send a printed copy with the cultures.

Please provide as much of the following information as available as this guides us in entering correct information into the database and in choosing optimum methods for handling your organism(s).

• Species name, species authority and original place of publication.
• If you are depositing a culture representing a new species, please provide the authority, journal of publication and approximate publication date. A copy of the accepted publication or relevant pages describing the new fungus would be appreciated.
• Isolation data including host or substrate, location collected, name of isolator.
• Special media or growth conditions.
• The number assigned to the isolate by the collector and / or isolator.
• Provide the number assigned to this isolate by other collections if deposited elsewhere (e.g.  DAOM, ATCC, CBS, IMI, etc.) and GenBank numbers of deposited sequences.
• If the isolate is cited in a scientific publication, please provide the complete reference (authors, title, journal, date) and copy of the publication, if possible.

See instructions for sending material to us.

Ensure that your work is scientifically reproducible by sending a culture for deposit.

   

 An isolate from an orchid protocorm sent for deposit

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Why deposit?

• You are sequencing
• You are describing a new species
• An isolate is described in a case report
• The fungus occurs on an unusual habitat or one that has not been extensively studied
• Your isolate produces novel compounds or has unusual characteristics
• The fungus is new to Canada or adds to information on the Canadian mycobiota