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.

Date (Creation)

Citation identifier: https://doi.org/10.15468/ev31zc

Purpose: 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

Point of contact

Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide - Stefano Schiaparelli

Originator

CNR - Angelina Lo Giudice

User

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Maxime Sweetlove

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Custodian

Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide - Stefano Schiaparelli

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Species distribution
Bio-geographical regions

NASA Thesaurus

GCMD - Science Keywords

BACTERIA/ARCHAEA

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

Terra Nova Bay

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA
IT/MNA

Use limitation: CC BY 4.0

Code: --- Italian Antarctic Expedition

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Campaign

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 1989-11-01

End date: 2024-12-31 Now

Unique resource identifier: WGS84

Distribution format

Darwin core ( 1 )

OnLine resource

CoreSampleData ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Database for biological samples taken during the Italian Antarctic expeditions and preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide.

OnLine resource

Biological Collections ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

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: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Statement: 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.