ReviewOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life2017
Tardigrades in Space Research - Past and Future.
Review in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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- At the Edge of Survival: Exploring the Frontiers of Tardigrade Extreme Stress Tolerance.Molecular ecology · 2026Review
- The utility of animal models to inform the next generation of human space exploration.NPJ microgravity · 2025Review
- Three new species of Mesobiotus (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Sweden with an updated phylogeny of the genus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Radioprotection redefined: drug discovery at the intersection of tardigrade biology and translational pharmacology.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Metabolite phosphatase from anhydrobiotic tardigrades.The FEBS journal · 2024Article
- Enzyme Engineering: Performance Optimization, Novel Sources, and Applications in the Food Industry.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Antioxidant Defense in the Toughest Animals on the Earth: Its Contribution to the Extreme Resistance of Tardigrades.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- How to obtain an integrated picture of the molecular networks involved in adaptation to microgravity in different biological systems?NPJ microgravity · 2024Review
- Domains of life sciences in spacefaring: what, where, and how to get involved.NPJ microgravity · 2024Article
- Chemobiosis reveals tardigrade tun formation is dependent on reversible cysteine oxidation.PloS one · 2024Article
- A general overview of the multifactorial adaptation to cold: biochemical mechanisms and strategies.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2023Review
- The Tardigrade damage suppressor protein Dsup promotes DNA damage in neurons.Molecular and cellular neurosciences · 2023Article
- New insights into osmobiosis and chemobiosis in tardigrades.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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- Tolerance of two anhydrobiotic tardigradesPeerJ · 2021Article
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- Naturally occurring fluorescence protects the eutardigradeBiology letters · 2020Article
- A computational structural study on the DNA-protecting role of the tardigrade-unique Dsup protein.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Microorganisms and Their Metabolic Capabilities in the Context of the Biogeochemical Nitrogen Cycle at Extreme Environments.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Rocket Science: The Effect of Spaceflight on Germination Physiology, Ageing, and Transcriptome ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
To survive exposure to space conditions, organisms should have certain characteristics including a high tolerance for freezing, radiation and desiccation. The organisms with the best chance for survival under such conditions are extremophiles, like some species of Bacteria and Archea, Rotifera, several species of Nematoda, some of the arthropods and Tardigrada (water bears). There is no denying that tardigrades are one of the toughest animals on our planet and are the most unique in the extremophiles group. Tardigrada are very small animals (50 to 2,100 μm in length), and they inhabit great number of Earth environments. Ever since it was proven that tardigrades have high resistance to the different kinds of stress factors associated with cosmic journeys, combined with their relatively complex structure and their relative ease of observation, they have become a perfect model organism for space research. This taxon is now the focus of astrobiologists from around the world. Therefore, this paper presents a short review of the space research performed on tardigrades as well as some considerations for further studies.
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