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Tardigrade secretory proteins protect biological structures from desiccation
Tardigrades, microscopic animals that survive a broad range of environmental stresses, express a unique set of proteins termed tardigrade-specific...
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Tardigrade small heat shock proteins can limit desiccation-induced protein aggregation
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are chaperones with well-characterized roles in heat stress, but potential roles for sHSPs in desiccation tolerance...
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Sexual dimorphism in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus metropolitanus transcriptome
BackgroundIn gonochoristic animals, the sex determination pathway induces different morphological and behavioral features that can be observed...
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The tardigrade Mesobiotus aradasi (Binda, Pilato & Lisi, 2005) is widely distributed along the Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica is considered one of the most inhospitable places to life due to its low temperatures and lack of liquid water. However, meiofauna taxa...
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Effect of environmental and microhabitat variables on tardigrade communities in a medium-sized city in central Argentina
Urban ecosystems are dynamic and complex, with human disturbances that lead to biotic homogenization. We consider the changes suffered by the...
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Desiccation risk favours prevalence and diversity of tardigrade communities and influences their trophic structure in alpine ephemeral rock pools
Rock pools are ephemeral freshwater habitats characterized by their small size, well-defined boundaries, and periodic desiccation, making them ideal...
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Trehalose and tardigrade CAHS proteins work synergistically to promote desiccation tolerance
Tardigrades are microscopic animals renowned for their ability to survive extreme desiccation. Unlike many desiccation-tolerant organisms that...
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Mitochondrial alternative oxidase contributes to successful tardigrade anhydrobiosis
Anhydrobiosis can be described as an adaptation to lack of water that enables some organisms, including tardigrades, to survive extreme conditions,...
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Morphological differences in tardigrade spermatozoa induce variation in gamete motility
BackgroundFertilization is an event at the beginning of ontogeny. Successful fertilization depends on strategies for uniting female and male gametes...
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The biology of tardigrade disordered proteins in extreme stress tolerance
AbstractDisordered proteins have long been known to help mediate tolerance to different abiotic stresses including freezing, osmotic stress, high...
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Evolution of egg deposition strategies, exaptations of exuvia, and thanatochresis in tardigrades
The cuticle is the tardigrade exoskeleton that, limiting animal growth, needs to be periodically shed. New cuticles must be formed (within the old...
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An overview of freshwater Tardigrada in Northern Western Ghats of India
We investigated the freshwater habitats of Northern Western Ghats of India to study the diversity and distribution of tardigrades. There has been no...
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Time-series transcriptomic screening of factors contributing to the cross-tolerance to UV radiation and anhydrobiosis in tardigrades
BackgroundTardigrades are microscopic animals that are capable of tolerating extreme environments by entering a desiccated state of suspended...
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Diversification rates in Tardigrada indicate a decreasing tempo of lineage splitting regardless of reproductive mode
Understanding the dynamics of speciation and extinction events is one of the most interesting subjects in evolutionary biology that relates to all...
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Cryophilic Tardigrada have disjunct and bipolar distribution and establish long-term stable, low-density demes
Glaciers are inhabited by various cryophilic organisms ranging from single celled to multicellular, like Tardigrada (water bears). Owing to their...
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Comparative transcriptomics suggest unique molecular adaptations within tardigrade lineages
BackgroundTardigrades are renowned for their ability to enter cryptobiosis (latent life) and endure extreme stress, including desiccation and...
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Extensive loss of Wnt genes in Tardigrada
BackgroundWnt genes code for ligands that activate signaling pathways during development in Metazoa. Through the canonical Wnt (cWnt) signaling...
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Integrative taxonomy helps to revise systematics and questions the purported cosmopolitan nature of the type species within the genus Diaforobiotus (Eutardigrada: Richtersiusidae)
Recent advances in tardigrade taxonomy have been greatly enhanced by the redescriptions of the type species for particular taxa or species groups. De...
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Homology of the head sensory structures between Heterotardigrada and Eutardigrada supported in a new species of water bear (Ramazzottiidae: Ramazzottius)
Phylum Tardigrada is represented by microscopic eight-legged panarthropods that inhabit terrestrial and marine environments. Although tardigrades are...
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The importance of being integrative: a remarkable case of synonymy in the genus Viridiscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)
There are two predominant sources of taxonomically useful morphological variability in the diverse tardigrade family Echiniscidae: the internal...
