Cochliopodium Explained

Cochliopodium is a Himatismenida genus.^[1]

It has been found in eyewash stations.^[2]

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^[3] ^[4]
C. clarum Schaeffer 1926
?C. crassiusculum Penard 1905
?C. erinaceum Penard 1902
C. gallicum Kudryavtsev & Smirnov 2006^[5]
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^[6]
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.^[7] The genome sequence of Cochliopodium minus contains a complete set of genes necessary for meiosis a key stage of sexual reproduction.^[8]

External links

Web site: Genus Cochliopodium . UniProt. 2009-06-18. (taxonomy information)

Notes and References

Kudryavtsev A . "Minute" species of Cochliopodium (Himatismenida): Description of three new fresh- and brackish-water species with a new diagnosis for Cochliopodium minus Page, 1976 . Eur. J. Protistol. . 42 . 2 . 77–89 . July 2006 . 17070753 . 10.1016/j.ejop.2005.12.002 .
Paszko-Kolva C, Yamamoto H, Shahamat M, Sawyer TK, Morris G, Colwell RR . Isolation of amoebae and Pseudomonas and Legionella spp. from eyewash stations . Appl. Environ. Microbiol. . 57 . 1 . 163–7 . January 1991 . 10.1128/aem.57.1.163-167.1991 . 2036003 . 182678 . 1991ApEnM..57..163P .
Srikanth S, Berk SG . Stimulatory effect of cooling tower biocides on amoebae . Appl. Environ. Microbiol. . 59 . 10 . 3245–9 . October 1993 . 10.1128/aem.59.10.3245-3249.1993 . 8250551 . 182444 . 1993ApEnM..59.3245S .
Hülsmann N, Galil BS . The effects of freshwater flushing on marine heterotrophic protists--implications for ballast water management . Mar. Pollut. Bull. . 42 . 11 . 1082–6 . November 2001 . 11763219 . 10.1016/S0025-326X(01)00087-X. 2001MarPB..42.1082H .
Kudryavtsev A, Smirnov A . Cochliopodium gallicum n. sp. (Himatismenida), an amoeba bearing unique scales, from cyanobacterial mats in the Camargue (France) . Eur. J. Protistol. . 42 . 1 . 3–7 . March 2006 . 17070746 . 10.1016/j.ejop.2005.08.001 .
Dyková I, Lom J, Machácková B . Cochliopodium minus, a scale-bearing amoeba isolated from organs of perch Perca fluviatilis . Dis. Aquat. Org. . 34 . 3 . 205–10 . November 1998 . 9925426 . 10.3354/dao034205. free .
29036297 . 2017 . Wood . F. C. . Heidari . A. . Tekle . Y. I. . Genetic Evidence for Sexuality in Cochliopodium (Amoebozoa) . The Journal of Heredity . 108 . 7 . 769–779 . 10.1093/jhered/esx078 . 5892394 .
35701521 . 2022 . Tekle . Y. I. . Wang . F. . Tran . H. . Hayes . T. D. . Ryan . J. F. . The draft genome of Cochliopodium minus reveals a complete meiosis toolkit and provides insight into the evolution of sexual mechanisms in Amoebozoa . Scientific Reports . 12 . 1 . 9841 . 10.1038/s41598-022-14131-y . 9198077 . 2022NatSR..12.9841T .