Auanema

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Auanema
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Rhabditidae
Genus: Auanema
Kanzaki et al, 2017

Auanema is a genus of halophilic roundworms from the family Rhabditidae, first described by a group of biologists in 2017. [1] It is found in Mono Lake in the US state of California, a lake of high salinity and can survive a level of arsenic dosage that is lethal to human. [2]

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Description

Auanema can survive in environments with an arsenic dosage of 500 times the lethal dosage for human. [2] Certain species of this genus were observed to have three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite. [3]

Species

The genus has the following six species: [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ Kanzaki, Natsumi; Kiontke, Karin; Tanaka, Ryusei; Hirooka, Yuuri; Schwarz, Anna; Müller-Reichert, Thomas; Chaudhuri, Jyotiska; Pires-daSilva, Andre (11 September 2017). "Description of two three-gendered nematode species in the new genus Auanema (Rhabditina) that are models for reproductive mode evolution". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 11135. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09871-1 . ISSN   2045-2322. PMC   5593846 . PMID   28894108.
  2. 1 2 Shih, Pei-Yin; Lee, James Siho; Shinya, Ryoji; Kanzaki, Natsumi; Pires-daSilva, Andre; Badroos, Jean Marie; Goetz, Elizabeth; Sapir, Amir; Sternberg, Paul W. (7 October 2019). "Newly Identified Nematodes from Mono Lake Exhibit Extreme Arsenic Resistance". Current Biology. 29 (19): 3339–3344.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.024 . ISSN   0960-9822.
  3. ↑ "New Species of Microscopic Worm Has Three Sexes, Lives in Arsenic-Rich Lake | Sci.News". Sci.News: Breaking Science News. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "WoRMS Taxon list". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Out of scope". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
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