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Tardigrades (/ˈtɑːrdɪɡreɪdz/ ),
known colloquially as
water bears or moss piglets, are a
phylum of eight-legged
segmented micro-animals. They were first...
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during a
failed landing attempt. Its
payload included a few
thousand tardigrades (also
known as
water bears).
Initial reports suggested they
could have...
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Beorn is an
extinct genus of
tardigrade and the
first known fossil tardigrade,
discocered in Late
Cretaceous amber from Manitoba, Canada. The
genus contains...
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Tardigrade specific proteins are
types of
intrinsically disordered proteins specific to
tardigrades.
These proteins help
tardigrades survive desiccation...
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Parachela is an
order of
tardigrades in the
class Eutardigrada.
Members of this
order have
existed for at
least 72
million years, up to the present. The...
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Biostasis project.
These approaches are
based on
research into
diapause in
tardigrades and wood
frogs which suggests that
selective stabilization of intracellular...
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agreed upon, but the
position of
tardigrades is more controversial. Some
phylogenomic studies have
found tardigrades to be more
closely related to nematodes...
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damage suppressor) is a DNA-****ociating protein,
unique to the
tardigrade, that
suppresses the
occurrence of DNA
breaks by radiation. When human...
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Milnesium tardigradum is a
cosmopolitan species of
tardigrade that can be
found in a
diverse range of environments. It has also been
found in the sea around...
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observed in
certain invertebrate animals such as
bdelloid rotifers,
tardigrades,
brine shrimp, nematodes, and at
least one insect, a
species of chironomid...
