Hypsibius

Short description: Genus of tardigrades

Hypsibius

Hypsibius dujardini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Tardigrada
Class:  | Eutardigrada
Order:  | Parachela
Family:  | Hypsibiidae
Subfamily:  | Hypsibiinae
Genus:  | Hypsibius
Ehrenberg, 1848
Type species
Macrobiotus dujardini[1][2]

Doyère, 1840

Hypsibius is a genus of tardigrades in the class Eutardigrada.

## Contents

* 1 Genome sequencing
* 2 Species
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Genome sequencing

The genome of Hypsibius dujardini has been sequenced.[3] Hypsibius dujardini has a compact genome and a generation time of about two weeks. It can be cultured indefinitely and cryopreserved.[4] This sequenced strain has been redesignated Hypsibius exemplaris since 2018.[5]

## Species

The genus includes the following 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 exemplaris (Gąsiorek, 2018)[5]
* 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 vaskelae Tumanov
* Hypsibius zetlandicus (Murray, 1907)

## References

1. ↑ Binda, Maria Grazia; Pilato, Giovanni (1987). "Case 2589. Hypsibius Ehrenberg, 1848 (Tardigrada): proposed designation of Macrobiotus dujardini Doyère, 1840 as type species". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44 (4): 235–236. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.340. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12229606.
2. ↑ ICZN (1989). "Opinion 1551. Hypsibius Ehrenberg, 1848 (Tardigrada): Macrobiotus dujardini Doyère, 1840 designated as type species". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 46 (3): 197–198.
3. ↑ Koutsovoulos, Georgios; Kumar, Sujai; Laetsch, Dominik R.; Stevens, Lewis; Daub, Jennifer; Conlon, Claire; Maroon, Habib; Thomas, Fran et al. (2016). "No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (18): 5053–5058. doi:10.1073/pnas.1600338113. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 27035985. PMC 4983863. Bibcode: 2016PNAS..113.5053K. https://zenodo.org/record/45436.
4. ↑ Gabriel, W (2007). "The tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, a new model for studying the evolution of development". Developmental Biology 312 (2): 545–559. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.09.055. PMID 17996863.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gąsiorek, P (2018). "An integrative redescription of Hypsibius dujardini (Doyère, 1840), the nominal taxon for Hypsibioidea (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada)". Zootaxa 4415 (1): 045–075. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4415.1.2. PMID 30313631.

## External links

* Tardigrada Newsletter
* Tardigrades – Pictures and Movies
* The Edinburgh Tardigrade project
* NJ Tardigrade Survey
* Tardigrades (English/German)
* Gabriel, WN et al. (December 2007). "Hypsibius dujardini and the evolution of development". Dev. Biol. 312 (2): 545–59. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.09.055. PMID 17996863.

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