Hypsibius
Encyclopedia
Hypsibius is a genus of water bear or moss piglet, a tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada.
. Hypsibius dujardini has a compact genome and a generation time of about two weeks. It can be cultured indefinitely and cryopreserved.
Genome sequencing
The genome of Hypsibius dujardini, is being sequenced at the Broad InstituteBroad Institute
The Broad Institute is a genomic medicine research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although it is independently governed and supported as a 501 nonprofit research organization, the institute is formally affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard...
. Hypsibius dujardini has a compact genome and a generation time of about two weeks. It can be cultured indefinitely and cryopreserved.
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)