mes_volvox_medium

CultureMech:000174 algae COMPLEX LIQUID
Original name: MES-Volvox Medium

Overview

Applications
  • Algae cultivation
  • Phytoplankton culture
  • Microalgae research
Synonyms
  • {'name': '1_f_2_medium', 'source': 'unknown', 'original_category': 'algae'}
  • {'name': '5_f_2_medium', 'source': 'unknown', 'original_category': 'algae'}
  • {'name': 'allen_medium', 'source': 'unknown', 'original_category': 'algae'}
  • {'name': 'bold_3n_medium', 'source': 'unknown', 'original_category': 'algae'}
  • {'name': 'bg_11_n_medium', 'source': 'unknown', 'original_category': 'algae'}

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_000174["mes_volvox_medium"]
    ing0_1["1"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing0_1
    ing1_2["2"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing1_2
    ing2_3["3"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing2_3
    ing3_4["4"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing3_4
    ing4_5["5"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing4_5
    ing5_6["6"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing5_6
    ing6_7["7"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing6_7
    ing7_8["8"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing7_8
    ing8_9["9"]
    CultureMech_000174 --> ing8_9

Ingredients (9)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 1 variable G_PER_L Original amount: Seawater(non-sterilized)
2 2 variable G_PER_L Original amount: dH2O
3 3 variable G_PER_L Original amount: NaNO3(Fisher BP360-500)
4 4 variable G_PER_L Original amount: NaH2PO4•H2O(MCIB 742)
5 5 variable G_PER_L Original amount: Na2SiO3•9H2O(Sigma 307815)
6 6 variable G_PER_L Original amount: Trace Metals Solution
7 7 variable G_PER_L Original amount: Vitamin B12
8 8 variable G_PER_L Original amount: Biotin Vitamin Solution
9 9 variable G_PER_L Original amount: Thiamine Vitamin Solution

Preparation

  1. Important Notes To Consider: The quality of water, including natural seawater, is important.
  2. The term 'dH2O' generally refers to distilled, deionized, distilled/deionized water, Milli-Q water (Millipore Corp.), etc.
  3. Natural seawater and natural freshwater should be obtained from a non-polluted source. When dissolving chemicals, wait for the first component to dissolve before adding the second.
  4. Stirring, and sometimes the addition of heat, is often required to dissolve the chemicals efficiently.
  5. Preparation of stock solutions for frequently made algal culture media make preparing media convenient but also necessary to avoid errors from weighing very tiny amounts. Attention should be given to the pH of the final medium.
  6. In most cases, if pH adjustment is required, this occurs before sterilization.
  7. Please note that autoclaving removes carbon dioxide from media lacking carbonate stabilizing buffers.
  8. This would make the medium very alkaline soon after removal from the autoclave.
  9. In these cases, you should wait approximately 24 hours for gaseous equilibrium before inoculating the medium.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

Merged from 6 source records.

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 utex-import Imported from UTEX Culture Collection Source ID: mes-volvox-medium, URL: https://utex.org/products/mes-volvox-medium
2026-03-13T06:18:53.419062Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:000174
2026-03-17T19:45:04.354140+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "MES-Volvox Medium" to "mes_volvox_medium" for consistent matching
2026-05-16T09:02:56.719876+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1; references.reference_id->reference=2; category->lowercase=1
2026-05-16T09:11:01.772877+00:00 migrate_preparation_steps.py MIGRATED_PREPARATION_STEPS instruction->action+description for 9 step(s)
2026-08-06T03:04:19.219264+00:00 recipe-merger Merged 6 duplicate recipes into canonical record Sources: 1_F_2_Medium, 5_F_2_Medium, Allen_Medium, Bold_3N_Medium, bg_11_n_medium, mes_volvox_medium
2026-08-06T03:04:19.219321+00:00 merge_recipes.py MERGED_RECIPES merged 6 source recipe(s) on fingerprint 52fcd3367ce3e945938923f4b56b81cba26964f2e53d3417b97e6d6301282afd