Cochliopodium

Cochliopodium
Amoeba of the genus Cochliopodium. Phase contrast microscopy. In the center, three digestive vacuoles with algae are visible, and a dark cell nucleus is located just below. The cytoplasm contains a lot of light contractile vacuoles, you can notice yellowish crystals.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Discosea
Order:	Himatismenida
Family:	Cochliopodiidae
Genus:	Cochliopodium Hertwig & Lesser 1874
Type species
Cochliopodium pellucidum Hertwig & Lesser 1874

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]

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