Adineta is a genus of rotifers belonging to the family Adinetidae.[1]

Adineta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Rotifera
Class: Bdelloidea
Order: Bdelloida
Family: Adinetidae
Genus: Adineta
Hudson, 1886

The species of this genus are found in Europe, Northern America, Australia and southernmost Southern Hemisphere.[1]

Adineta vaga meiosis edit

Until recently, it was considered that the reproductive mode of bdelloid rotifers is mitotic parthenogenesis.[2] However, recent research with Adineta vaga now supports a meiotic derived oogenesis with an altered meiosis I stage.[2] During this stage homologous chromosomes associate, likely undergo recombinational repair of DNA damage and then separate, but do not segregate into haploid nuclei.[2]

Species edit

Species:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Adineta Hudson, 1886". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Terwagne, M.; Nicolas, E.; Hespeels, B.; Herter, L.; Virgo, J.; Demazy, C.; Heuskin, A. C.; Hallet, B.; Van Doninck, K. (2022). "DNA repair during nonreductional meiosis in the asexual rotifer Adineta vaga". Science Advances. 8 (48): eadc8829. Bibcode:2022SciA....8C8829T. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adc8829. PMC 9710870. PMID 36449626.