CIBAN Italian Antarctic Bacterial Culture Collection
The Italian Collection of Antarctic Bacteria (CIBAN) was established in 1989 at the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences of the University of Messina. CIBAN is one of the few collections in the world dedicated to Antarctic bacteria and, since its inception, it has grown to include 515 cold-adapted strains belonging to 69 Genera.
Bacteria were extracted from seawater, sediment, and benthic organisms, mainly from the Terra Nova Bay marine area in East Antarctica. CIBAN also hosts bacterial isolates from the continent.
Quality control: Strains are routinely streaked on agar plates every six months to control purity and viability.
Method steps: All cultures are maintained in duplicate on agar slants at 4 °C. Antarctic strains are also preserved by freezing cell suspensions at – 80 °C in liquid broth to which 20% glycerol is added.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.15468/ev31zc
- Purpose
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All vouchers are permanently stored at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA), Section of Genoa, enabling future comparison and crosschecking. This material is also currently under study, from a molecular point of view, by the barcoding project "BAMBi" (PNRA 2010/A1.10).
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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Bio-geographical regions
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NASA Thesaurus
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DNA
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GCMD - Science Keywords
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BACTERIA/ARCHAEA
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GCMD - Locations
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ANTARCTICA
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SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Terra Nova Bay
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GCMD - Providers
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IT/PNRA
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IT/MNA
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- Use limitation
- CC BY 4.0
- Unique resource identifier
- --- Italian Antarctic Expedition
- Association Type
- dependency
- Initiative Type
- Campaign
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Denominator
- 1
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1989-11-01
- End date
- 2024-12-31 Now
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS84
- Distribution format
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Darwin core
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1
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Darwin core
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1
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- OnLine resource
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CoreSampleData
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Database for biological samples taken during the Italian Antarctic expeditions and preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide.
- OnLine resource
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Biological Collections
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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The MNA biological collections are articulated in five different sub-collections each one conserving and curating different kind of samples.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- Yes
- Statement
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Specimens were classified at the lowest possible taxonomic level. During all the phases of sorting, classification and storage of samples at the Italian National Antarctic Museum, quality controls and data cleaning have been undertaken at various steps in order to produce quality data and make consistent cross-references between the database and samples' labels. The MNA uses an SQL-based database to manage its collections and link all the data (photos, sequences, etc.) to the physical samples.
- File identifier
- ff0862e1-f520-44b5-b9de-659231f60726 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-05-30T16:00:51
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0