We describe a new selection method based on BODIPY (4,4-difluoro-1,3,5,7- tetramethyl-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene) staining, fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) and microplate-based isolation of lipid-rich microalgae from an environmental sample. Our results show that direct sorting onto solid medium upon FACS can save about 3 weeks during the scale-up process as compared with the growth of the same cultures in liquid medium. This approach enabled us to isolate a biodiverse collection of several axenic and unialgal cultures of different phyla. © 2011 Pereira et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Pereira, H., Barreira, L., Mozes, A., Florindo, C., Polo, C., Duarte, C. V., … Varela, J. (2011). Microplate-based high throughput screening procedure for the isolation of lipid-rich marine microalgae. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/1754-6834-4-61
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