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Hypsibius is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.

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Genome sequencing

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The genome of Hypsibius dujardini, is being sequenced[1] at the Broad Institute. Hypsibius dujardini has a compact genome and a generation time of about two weeks. It can be cultured indefinitely and cryopreserved.[2]

Species

  • Hypsibius allisoni Horning, Schuster and Grigarick, 1978
  • Hypsibius americanus (Packard, 1873)
  • Hypsibius antonovae (Biserov 1990)
  • Hypsibius arcticus (Murray 1907)
  • Hypsibius biscuitiformis Bartos, 1960
  • Hypsibius calcaratus Bartos, 1935
  • Hypsibius camelopardalis Ramazzotti and Maucci, 1983
  • Hypsibius conifer Mihelcic, 1938
  • Hypsibius convergens (Urbanowicz, 1925)
  • Hypsibius dujardini (Doyère, 1840)
  • Hypsibius fuhrmanni (Heinis, 1914)
  • Hypsibius giusepperamazzotti Sudzuki, 1975
  • Hypsibius heardensis Miller, McInnes and Bergstrom, 2005
  • Hypsibius hypostomus Bartos, 1935
  • Hypsibius iharosi Bartos, 1941
  • Hypsibius janetscheki Ramazzotti 1968
  • Hypsibius klebelsbergi Mihelcic 1959
  • Hypsibius macrocalcaratus Beasley, 1988
  • Hypsibius maculatus Iharos, 1969
  • Hypsibius marcelli Pilato, 1990
  • Hypsibius microps Thulin, 1928
  • Hypsibius morikawai Ito, 1995
  • Hypsibius multituberculatus Pilato, Binda and Lisi, 2003
  • Hypsibius novaezeelandiae Pilato and Binda, 1997
  • Hypsibius pachyunguis Maucci, 1996
  • Hypsibius pallidus Thulin, 1911
  • Hypsibius pedrottii Bertolani, Manicardi and Gibertoni, 1987
  • Hypsibius pradellii Bertolani and Rebecchi, 1996
  • Hypsibius ragonesei Binda and Pilato, 1985
  • Hypsibius roanensis Nelson and McGlothlin, 1993
  • Hypsibius runae Bartos, 1941
  • Hypsibius scaber Maucci, 1987
  • Hypsibius scabropygus Cuénot, 1929
  • Hypsibius septulatus Pilato, Binda, Napolitano and Moncada, 2004
  • Hypsibius seychellensis Pilato, Binda and Lisi, 2006
  • Hypsibius simoizumii Sudzuki, 1964
  • Hypsibius stiliferus Abe, 2004
  • Hypsibius thaleri Dastych, 2004
  • Hypsibius zetlandicus (Murray, 1907)

References

  1. ^ Entrez. "Genome Projects for Hypsibius dujardini". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=genomeprj&cmd=search&term=tardigrade. 
  2. ^ Gabriel, W et al. (2007). "The tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, a new model for studying the evolution of development". Developmental Biology 312: 545–559. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.09.055. 
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