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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...
- The use of
tardigrades in space,
first proposed in 1964
because of
their extreme tolerance to radiation,
began in 2007 with the FOTON-M3
mission in low...
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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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early 19th century,
tardigrades'
environmental tolerance has been a
noted feature of the group. The
animals are able to
survive extremes of temperature...
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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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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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Tardigrade Records, with Moth
Records as an imprint. In 2015, he
included "
Tardigrade Song" on his EP
Pelicans We,
imagining himself as a
tardigrade....
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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...
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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...
