''Hypsibius'' is a genus of

tardigrade Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ...

s in the class

Eutardigrada Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained the ability to live in marine environments (''Halobiotus''). By cryptobiosis many species are able t ...

Genome sequencing

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

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 ''Hypsibius dujardini sensu lato'' is a species complex of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada Eutardigrada are a class of tardigrades (Tardigrada) without lateral appendices. Primarily freshwater bound, some species have secondarily gained ...

'' (Gąsiorek, 2018) * '' 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 ''Hypsibius'' is a genus of tardigrades in the class Eutardigrada. Genome sequencing The genome of ''Hypsibius dujardini'' has been sequenced. ''Hypsibius dujardini'' has a compact genome and a generation time of about two weeks. It can be cult ...

'' 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

External links

Tardigrada Newsletter

Tardigrades – Pictures and Movies

The Edinburgh Tardigrade project

Tardigrades (English/German)
* Hypsibiidae Tardigrade genera Polyextremophiles Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg {{Tardigrade-stub