ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020
Iron Ladies - How Desiccated Asexual Rotifer
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Transgenerational chromosome repair in the asexual bdelloid rotiferScience advances · 2026Article
- Rotifers in space: transcriptomic response of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga aboard the International Space Station.BMC biology · 2025Article
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- Does pigmentation provide protection to bdelloid rotifers in a high ultraviolet B environment?Limnology and oceanography · 2024Article
- Ionizing radiation responses appear incidental to desiccation responses in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga.BMC biology · 2024Article
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- Horizontal acquisition of a DNA ligase improves DNA damage tolerance in eukaryotes.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Back to the roots, desiccation and radiation resistances are ancestral characters in bdelloid rotifers.BMC biology · 2023Review
- DNA repair during nonreductional meiosis in the asexual rotiferScience advances · 2022Article
- Chromosome-level genome assembly reveals homologous chromosomes and recombination in asexual rotiferScience advances · 2021Article
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Abstract
Space exposure experiments from the last 15 years have unexpectedly shown that several terrestrial organisms, including some multi-cellular species, are able to survive in open space without protection. The robustness of bdelloid rotifers suggests that these tiny creatures can possibly be added to the still restricted list of animals that can deal with the exposure to harsh condition of space. Bdelloids are one of the smallest animals on Earth. Living all over the world, mostly in semi-terrestrial environments, they appear to be extremely stress tolerant. Their desiccation tolerance at any stage of their life cycle is known to confer tolerance to a variety of stresses including high doses of radiation and freezing. In addition, they constitute a major scandal in evolutionary biology due to the putative absence of sexual reproduction for at least 60 million years.
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