Examples of extreme survival: tardigrade genomics and molecular anhydrobiology

K Arakawa - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tardigrades are ubiquitous meiofauna that are especially renowned for their exceptional
extremotolerance to various adverse environments, including pressure, temperature, and …

[HTML][HTML] The biomedical potential of tardigrade proteins: A review

N Kasianchuk, P Rzymski, Ł Kaczmarek - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Tardigrades are ubiquitous microinvertebrates exhibiting extreme tolerance to various
environmental stressors like low and high temperatures, lack of water, or high radiation …

How long can tardigrades survive in the anhydrobiotic state? A search for tardigrade anhydrobiosis patterns

M Roszkowska, B Gołdyn, D Wojciechowska… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Anhydrobiosis is a desiccation tolerance that denotes the ability to survive almost complete
dehydration without sustaining damage. The knowledge on the survival capacity of various …

Elevated external temperature affects cell ultrastructure and heat shock proteins (HSPs) in Paramacrobiotus experimentalis Kaczmarek, Mioduchowska, Poprawa, & …

P Kayastha, F Wieczorkiewicz, M Pujol, A Robinson… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Increasing temperature influences the habitats of various organisms, including microscopic
invertebrates. To gain insight into temperature-dependent changes in tardigrades, we …

Verification of Hypsibius exemplaris Gąsiorek et al., 2018 (Eutardigrada; Hypsibiidae) application in anhydrobiosis research

I Poprawa, T Bartylak, A Kulpla, W Erdmann… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Anhydrobiosis is considered to be an adaptation of important applicative implications
because it enables resistance to the lack of water. The phenomenon is still not well …

Sexual reproductive behaviours of tardigrades: a review

K Sugiura, M Matsumoto - Invertebrate Reproduction & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The first observation of sexual reproductive behaviour of a tardigrade was reported in 1895,
and much knowledge on this topic has accumulated since then. Up to the 2000s, these …

Tolerance against exposure to solution of magnesium perchlorate in microinvertebrates

P Kayastha, P Rzymski, B Gołdyn… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Perchlorates are present at high concentrations in Martian regolith and pose an additional
challenge to the survival of terrestrial life on Mars. Some microinvertebrates can resist …

Long-Term Survivability of Tardigrade Paramacrobiotus experimentalis (Eutardigrada) at Increased Magnesium Perchlorate Levels: Implications for Astrobiological …

PA Wilanowska, P Rzymski, Ł Kaczmarek - Life, 2024 - mdpi.com
Perchlorate salts, including magnesium perchlorate, are highly toxic compounds that occur
on Mars at levels far surpassing those on Earth and pose a significant challenge to the …

Storage cell proliferation during somatic growth establishes that tardigrades are not eutelic organisms

G Quiroga-Artigas, M Moriel-Carretero - Biology Open, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Tardigrades, microscopic ecdysozoans known for extreme environment resilience, were
traditionally believed to maintain a constant cell number after completing embryonic …

Morphological and genetic variability in cosmopolitan tardigrade species—Paramacrobiotus fairbanksi Schill, Förster, Dandekar & Wolf, 2010

P Kayastha, W Szydło, M Mioduchowska… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Paramacrobiotus fairbanksi was described from Alaska (USA) based on integrative
taxonomy and later reported from various geographical localities making it a true …