ArticleScientific reports2018
Modelling extreme desiccation tolerance in a marine tardigrade.
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- At the Edge of Survival: Exploring the Frontiers of Tardigrade Extreme Stress Tolerance.Molecular ecology · 2026Review
- Single-Animal, Single-Tube RNA Extraction for Comparison of Relative Transcript Levels via qRT-PCR in the Tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2025Article
- Single-animal, single-tube RNA extraction for comparison of relative transcript levels via qRT-PCR in the tardigradebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Antioxidant Defense in the Toughest Animals on the Earth: Its Contribution to the Extreme Resistance of Tardigrades.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- New insights into osmobiosis and chemobiosis in tardigrades.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- New insights into the limited thermotolerance of anhydrobiotic tardigrades.Communicative & integrative biology · 2020Article
- Thermotolerance experiments on active and desiccated states of Ramazzottius varieornatus emphasize that tardigrades are sensitive to high temperatures.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Differential mechanisms of tolerance to extreme environmental conditions in tardigrades.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Radiation Tolerance in Tardigrades: Current Knowledge and Potential Applications in Medicine.Cancers · 2019Review
- Comparative transcriptomics suggest unique molecular adaptations within tardigrade lineages.BMC genomics · 2019Article
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Abstract
It has recently been argued that the enigmatic tardigrades (water bears) will endure until the sun dies, surviving any astrophysical calamities in Earth's oceans. Yet, our knowledge of stress tolerance among marine tardigrade species is very limited and most investigations revolve around species living in moist habitats on land. Here, we investigate desiccation tolerance in the cosmopolitan marine tidal tardigrade, Echiniscoides sigismundi, providing the first thorough analysis on recovery upon desiccation from seawater. We test the influence on survival of desiccation surface, time spent desiccated (up to 1 year) and initial water volume. We propose analysis methods for survival estimates, which can be used as a future platform for evaluating and analysing recovery rates in organisms subjected to extreme stress. Our data reveal that marine tidal tardigrades tolerate extremely rapid and extended periods of desiccation from seawater supporting the argument that these animals are among the toughest organisms on Earth.
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