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The Microbial Community of Tardigrades: Environmental Influence and Species Specificity of Microbiome Structure and Composition
Symbiotic associations of metazoans with bacteria strongly influence animal biology since bacteria are ubiquitous and virtually no animal is...
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Water bears dominated cryoconite hole ecosystems: densities, habitat preferences and physiological adaptations of Tardigrada on an alpine glacier
We investigated the Forni Glacier and the surrounding area in the Alps in terms of habitat preferences, densities, dispersal and desiccation...
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Role of Extremophiles and Extremophilic Proteins in Industrial Waste Treatment
Majority of the industrial products are made in variety of extreme environments. These industrial processes generate by-products that are difficult...
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A Bioinformatics Tutorial for Comparative Development Genomics in Diverse Meiofauna
Miniaturization, which is a common feature in animals, is particularly manifest in meiofauna—animals sharing peculiar phenotypic features that...
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Back to the roots, desiccation and radiation resistances are ancestral characters in bdelloid rotifers
BackgroundBdelloid rotifers are micro-invertebrates distributed worldwide, from temperate latitudes to the most extreme areas of the planet like...
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Tardigrade Research in Japan
Tardigrades (water bears) are microscopic animals walking slowly with four pairs of legs, comprising the phylum Tardigrada, which is closely related...
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Phylogeny and Integrative Taxonomy of Tardigrada
Tardigrade phylogeny is currently the object of intense investigations driven by an increasing amount of molecular data from a broad taxonomic range...
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Adaptation to High Pressure in the Laboratory
Can microorganisms and animals be adapted to high pressure in controlled experimental conditions? The susceptibility of organisms to pressure is...
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Field and Laboratory Methods
Tardigrades live in diverse habitats. Fundamental research on tardigrades is based on habitat sampling, sample processing, tardigrade culture and...
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Molecular Biology in Tardigrades
Molecular biology, a term first coined in the 1930s, can be viewed as a set of techniques and approaches, as well as a subdiscipline within biology....
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The role of autophagy in the midgut epithelium of Parachela (Tardigrada)
The process of cell death has been detected in the midgut epithelium of four tardigrade species which belong to Parachela: Macrobiotus diversus,...
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The largest moss carpet transplant in Antarctica and its bryosphere cryptic biodiversity
As part of the reconstruction of the Brazilian Antarctic Station on King George Island, three areas of moss carpet were transplanted to minimize the...
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Paleontology and Molecular Dating
Few fossil tardigrade records are known, probably due to their minute size and absence of consistent hard body parts. A possible but not certain...
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Next-generation genome annotation: we still struggle to get it right
While the genome sequencing revolution has led to the sequencing and assembly of many thousands of new genomes, genome annotation still uses very...
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Environmental Adaptations: Desiccation Tolerance
Survival in microhabitats that experience extreme fluctuations in water availability and temperature requires extreme adaptations. Antonie van...
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Dormancy in Freshwater Tardigrades
For more than two centuries, tardigrades have been well known for their ability to undergo dormancy. However, this capability has been well studied...
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Horizontal Gene Transfer in Metazoa: Examples and Methods
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is now widely accepted as an indispensable mechanism in the evolution of microbes, but its contribution in metazoans...
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Assessing Long-Term Ecological Changes in Wetlands of the Bass Strait Islands, Southeast Australia: Palaeoecological Insights and Management Implications
Understanding long-term ecological development of wetlands is critical to effective management. The islands of Bass Strait, southeast Australia, have...
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Planetary extravehicular activity (EVA) risk mitigation strategies for long-duration space missions
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is one of the most dangerous activities of human space exploration. To ensure astronaut safety and mission success, it...
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Preface: Patterns and processes of meiofauna in freshwater ecosystems
Never heard of harpacticoids, ostracods, gastrotrichs or microturbellarians? This is no surprise, they are so tiny! Yet these taxa and many others...
