Staying young and fit? Ontogenetic and phylogenetic consequences of animal anhydrobiosis

Long-distance passive dispersal in microscopic aquatic animals

(2019) Diego Fontaneto   Movement Ecology

Evolutionary consequences of epigenetic inheritance

(2018) Martin I. Lind et al.   HEREDITY

Cooption of heat shock regulatory system for anhydrobiosis in the sleeping chironomidPolypedilum vanderplanki

(2018) Pavel V. Mazin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative genomics of bdelloid rotifers: Insights from desiccating and nondesiccating species

(2018) Reuben W. Nowell et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation

(2017) Thomas C. Boothby et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Comparative genomics of the tardigrades Hypsibius dujardini and Ramazzottius varieornatus

(2017) Yuki Yoshida et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Aging across the tree of life: The importance of a comparative perspective for the use of animal models in aging

(2017) Alan A. Cohen   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

Genetic Exchange among Bdelloid Rotifers Is More Likely Due to Horizontal Gene Transfer Than to Meiotic Sex

(2016) Nicolas Debortoli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fifteen species in one: deciphering the Brachionus plicatilis species complex (Rotifera, Monogononta) through DNA taxonomy

(2016) Scott Mills et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Genome of a tardigrade: Horizontal gene transfer or bacterial contamination?

(2016) Felix Bemm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigradeHypsibius dujardini

(2016) Georgios Koutsovoulos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identifying contamination with advanced visualization and analysis practices: metagenomic approaches for eukaryotic genome assemblies

(2016) Tom O. Delmont et al.   PeerJ

Very Long-Lived Mollusks Confirm 17th Century AD Tephra-Based Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages for North Icelandic Shelf Waters

(2016) Alan D Wanamaker et al.   RADIOCARBON

Complex systems dynamics in aging: new evidence, continuing questions

(2015) Alan A. Cohen   BIOGERONTOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats

(2015) Isobel Eyres et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Anhydrobiosis

(2015) David A. Wharton   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Do Species Exist in Asexuals? Theory and Evidence from Bdelloid Rotifers

(2015) Diego Fontaneto et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Extreme population subdivision despite high colonization ability: contrasting regional patterns in intertidal tardigrades from the west coast of North America

(2015) Søren Faurby et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolutionary change and phylogenetic relationships in light of horizontal gene transfer

(2015) Luis Boto   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Regulation of hypometabolism: insights into epigenetic controls

(2015) K. B. Storey   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Unraveling the non-senescence phenomenon in Hydra

(2015) Maciej J. Dańko et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade

(2015) Thomas C. Boothby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada

(2015) ŁUKASZ KACZMAREK et al.   ZOOTAXA

Two new tardigrade species from Romania (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae, Macrobiotidae), with some remarks on secondary sex characters in Milnesium dornensis sp. nov.

(2015) DANIEL ADRIAN CIOBANU et al.   ZOOTAXA

Novel Mitochondria-Targeted Heat-Soluble Proteins Identified in the Anhydrobiotic Tardigrade Improve Osmotic Tolerance of Human Cells

(2015) Sae Tanaka et al.   PLoS One

Anhydrobiosis and Freezing-Tolerance: Adaptations That Facilitate the Establishment of Panagrolaimus Nematodes in Polar Habitats

(2015) Lorraine M. McGill et al.   PLoS One

Aging and longevity in the simplest animals and the quest for immortality

(2014) Ronald S. Petralia et al.   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

A millennial-scale chronicle of evolutionary responses to cultural eutrophication inDaphnia

(2014) Dagmar Frisch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

SEXUAL SPECIES ARE SEPARATED BY LARGER GENETIC GAPS THAN ASEXUAL SPECIES IN ROTIFERS

(2014) Cuong Q. Tang et al.   EVOLUTION

First record of cysts in the tidal tardigrade Echiniscoides sigismundi

(2014) Lykke K. B. Clausen et al.   HELGOLAND MARINE RESEARCH

Rotifers as experimental tools for investigating aging

(2014) Terry W. Snell et al.   INVERTEBRATE REPRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Gateway to genetic exchange? DNA double-strand breaks in the bdelloid rotiferAdineta vagasubmitted to desiccation

(2014) B. Hespeels et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Towards Decrypting Cryptobiosis—Analyzing Anhydrobiosis in the Tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum Using Transcriptome Sequencing

(2014) Chong Wang et al.   PLoS One

Dry up and survive: the role of antioxidant defences in anhydrobiotic organisms

(2013) Lorena Rebecchi   JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

(2013) Jean-François Flot et al.   NATURE

Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

(2013) Owen R. Jones et al.   NATURE

Dynamics of rotifer and cladoceran resting stages during copper pollution and recovery in a subalpine lake

(2012) Roberta Piscia et al.   ANNALES DE LIMNOLOGIE-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

Long-Term Survival of Microscopic Animals Under Desiccation Is Not So Long

(2012) Diego Fontaneto et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Different Diversification Rates Between Sexual and Asexual Organisms

(2012) Diego Fontaneto et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Inorganic ion composition in Tardigrada: cryptobionts contain a large fraction of unidentified organic solutes

(2012) K. A. Halberg et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

What can we learn from the toughest animals of the Earth? Water bears (tardigrades) as multicellular model organisms in order to perform scientific preparations for lunar exploration

(2012) Roberto Guidetti et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Telomere maintenance and telomerase activity are differentially regulated in asexual and sexual worms

(2012) T. C. J. Tan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Getting to the Root of Aging

(2012) A. Baudisch et al.   SCIENCE

The ‘rotiferologist’ effect and other global correlates of species richness in monogonont rotifers

(2011) Diego Fontaneto et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The biology of aging: 1985–2010 and beyond

(2011) George M. Martin   FASEB JOURNAL

Phylogeography of North Atlantic intertidal tardigrades: refugia, cryptic speciation and the history of the Mid-Atlantic Islands

(2011) Søren Faurby et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

No evidence of senescence in a 300-year-old mountain herb

(2011) Maria B. Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Anhydrobiosis in tardigrades—The last decade

(2011) Weronika Wełnicz et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Ultraviolet radiation tolerance in hydrated and desiccated eutardigrades

(2011) Tiziana Altiero et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Age-associated neurodegeneration and oxidative damage to lipids, proteins and DNA

(2011) Zsolt Radak et al.   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

Ageing and longevity in the Decapoda (Crustacea): A review

(2011) G. Vogt   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

The Hydra polyp: Nothing but an active stem cell community

(2010) Thomas C. G. Bosch et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Developmental stages in diapausing eggs: an investigation across monogonont rotifer species

(2010) Chiara Boschetti et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Foreign genes and novel hydrophilic protein genes participate in the desiccation response of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta ricciae

(2010) C. Boschetti et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Water uptake and morphological changes during recovery from anabiosis in the plant-parasitic nematode, Ditylenchus dipsaci

(2010) D. A. WHARTON et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Anciently Asexual Bdelloid Rotifers Escape Lethal Fungal Parasites by Drying Up and Blowing Away

(2010) C. G. Wilson et al.   SCIENCE

Circadian clocks and antiaging: Do non-aging microalgae like Euglena reveal anything?

(2009) Ken Goto et al.   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

Molecular mechanisms of tolerance in tardigrades: New perspectives for preservation and stabilization of biological material

(2009) Ralph O. Schill et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Survival and DNA degradation in anhydrobiotic tardigrades

(2009) L. Rebecchi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

“Pando” Lives: Molecular Genetic Evidence of a Giant Aspen Clone in Central Utah

(2009) Jennifer DeWoody et al.   WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST

The evolutionary ecology of senescence

(2008) P. Monaghan et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effect of high hydrostatic pressure on to life of the tiny animal tardigrade

(2008) F. Ono et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS

Anhydrobiosis in tardigrades and its effects on longevity traits

(2008) S. Hengherr et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Molecular evidence for broad-scale distributions in bdelloid rotifers: everything is not everywhere but most things are very widespread

(2008) DIEGO FONTANETO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Trehalose and Trehalose-based Polymers for Environmentally Benign, Biocompatible and Bioactive Materials

(2008) Naozumi Teramoto et al.   MOLECULES

Extreme resistance of bdelloid rotifers to ionizing radiation

(2008) Eugene Gladyshev et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2008) E. A. Gladyshev et al.   SCIENCE