''Cochliopodium'' is a
Himatismenida genus.
It has been found in eyewash stations.
It includes:
* ''C. actinophorum''
(Auerbach 1856) Page 1976
* ?''C. ambiguum''
Penard 1904
* ''C. arabianum''
Tekle, Gorfu & Anderson 2015
* ''C. barki''
Kudryavtsev, Brown et Smirnov 2004
* ''C. bilimbosum''
(Auerbach 1856) Leidy 1879
* ''C. clarum''
Schaeffer 1926
* ?''C. crassiusculum''
Penard 1905
* ?''C. erinaceum''
Penard 1902
* ''C. gallicum''
Kudryavtsev & Smirnov 2006
* ''C. granulatum''
Penard 1890
* ''C. gulosum''
Schaeffer 1926
* ''C. kieliense''
Kudryavtsev 2006
* ''C. larifeili''
Kudriavtsev 1999
* ''C. maeoticum''
Kudryavtsev 2006
* ''C. megatetrastylus''
Anderson & Tekle 2013
* ''C. minus''
Page 1976
* ''C. minutoidum''
Kudryavtsev 2006
* ?''C. minutum''
West 1901
* ?''C. muscorum''
Wang 1977
* ?''C. obscurum''
Pen.
* ?''C. papyrum''
Bovee 1958
* ''C. pentatrifurcatum''
Tekle et al. 2013
* ''C. plurinucleolum''
Geisen et al. 2014
* ?''C. radiosum''
Biernacka 1963
* ?''C. silvaticum''
Varga 1935
* ''C. spiniferum''
Kudryavtsev 2004
* ?''C. spumosum''
Penard 1904
* ''C. vestitum''
(Archer 1871) Archer 1877
Recombination and Meiosis
The ''Cochliopodium''
genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding g ...
includes genes whose functions are employed in the process of
genetic recombination suggesting the possibility of a sexual stage. The genome sequence of ''Cochliopodium minus'' contains a complete set of genes necessary for
meiosis
Meiosis (; , since it is a reductional division) is a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms that produces the gametes, such as sperm or egg cells. It involves two rounds of division that ultimately r ...
a key stage of
sexual reproduction
Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete ( haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes combines with another gamete to produce a zygote th ...
.
[Tekle YI, Wang F, Tran H, Hayes TD, Ryan JF. The draft genome of Cochliopodium minus reveals a complete meiosis toolkit and provides insight into the evolution of sexual mechanisms in Amoebozoa. Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 14;12(1):9841. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14131-y. PMID: 35701521; PMCID: PMC9198077]
References
External links
*(taxonomy information)
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Amoebozoa genera
Discosea