Species: Oscheius tipulae

Parent taxon: Oscheius

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:141969

Description: free-living microbivore associated with crane flies (Tipulidae)

BClade: Bclade V

Interested people: Mark Blaxter, Marie-Anne Felix

Genome size: 120 Mb

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Strain Sequencing Status

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Strain Genome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Oscheius tipulae CEW1	ongoing	Mark Blaxter		BlaxterLab University of Edinburgh FelixLab Univeristy Paris-Diderot	The GenePool		http://nematodes.org/downloads/959nematodegenomes/blast	1X

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Oscheius tipulae CEW1	in annotation		Marie-Anne Felix			454 run		1X

Phylogenetic context

One of the most common free-living terrestrial species. Cosmopolitan.

Large frozen collection of wild isolates in Felix lab. see AFLP study by Baille et al. Mol. Ecol. 2008

Morphological, Unc and development mutants available.

see 'Oscheius tipulae' wormbook.org chapter