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Wikipedia / Cochliopodium

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 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 a key stage of sexual reproduction.

References

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