Comparative transcriptomics suggest unique molecular adaptations within tardigrade lineages

An integrative redescription of Hypsibius dujardini (Doyère, 1840), the nominal taxon for Hypsibioidea (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada)

(2018) PIOTR GĄSIOREK et al.   ZOOTAXA

Modelling extreme desiccation tolerance in a marine tardigrade

(2018) Thomas L. Sørensen-Hygum et al.   Scientific Reports

Prevalence of Mutation-Prone Microhomology-Mediated End Joining in a Chordate Lacking the c-NHEJ DNA Repair Pathway

(2018) Wei Deng et al.   CURRENT 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

Comparative Investigation of Copper Tolerance and Identification of Putative Tolerance Related Genes in Tardigrades

(2017) Thomas L. Hygum et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The Compact Body Plan of Tardigrades Evolved by the Loss of a Large Body Region

(2016) Frank W. Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Transcription-coupled homologous recombination after oxidative damage

(2016) Leizhen Wei et al.   DNA REPAIR

Cross-tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses in plants: a focus on resistance to aphid infestation

(2016) Christine H. Foyer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

FlyBase at 25: looking to the future

(2016) L. Sian Gramates et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Tardigrades in Space Research - Past and Future

(2016) Erdmann Weronika et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

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

Data from new taxa inferIsoechiniscoidesgen. nov. and increase the phylogenetic and evolutionary understanding of echiniscoidid tardigrades (Echiniscoidea: Tardigrada)

(2016) Nadja Møbjerg et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Mitosis in storage cells of the eutardigradeRichtersius coronifer

(2016) Michaela Czernekova et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Tun formation is not a prerequisite for desiccation tolerance in the marine tidal tardigradeEchiniscoides sigismundi

(2016) Thomas L. Hygum et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein

(2016) Takuma Hashimoto et al.   Nature Communications

Characterization of Two Dinoflagellate Cold Shock Domain Proteins

(2016) Mathieu Beauchemin et al.   mSphere

Peroxisomal ABC transporters: functions and mechanism

(2015) A. Baker et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Xenbase: Core features, data acquisition, and data processing

(2015) Christina James-Zorn et al.   GENESIS

Genetic Basis of Differential Heat Resistance between Two Species of Congeneric Freshwater Snails: Insights from Quantitative Proteomics and Base Substitution Rate Analysis

(2015) Huawei Mu et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Tolerance to Gamma Radiation in the Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini from Embryo to Adult Correlate Inversely with Cellular Proliferation

(2015) Eliana Beltrán-Pardo et al.   PLoS One

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

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

(2015) Sae Tanaka et al.   PLoS One

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

First record of cysts in the tidal tardigrade Echiniscoides sigismundi

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

Xenbase, the Xenopus model organism database; new virtualized system, data types and genomes

(2014) J. Brad Karpinka et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Desiccation Tolerance in the Tardigrade Richtersius coronifer Relies on Muscle Mediated Structural Reorganization

(2014) Kenneth Agerlin Halberg et al.   PLoS One

The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

(2013) Kerstin Howe et al.   NATURE

Peroxisomes take shape

(2013) Jennifer J. Smith et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Analysis of DNA Repair and Protection in the Tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and Hypsibius dujardini after Exposure to UVC Radiation

(2013) Daiki D. Horikawa et al.   PLoS One

Molecular Strategies of the Caenorhabditis elegans Dauer Larva to Survive Extreme Desiccation

(2013) Cihan Erkut et al.   PLoS One

Peroxisome deficient invertebrate and vertebrate animal models

(2013) Paul P. Van Veldhoven et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Two Novel Heat-Soluble Protein Families Abundantly Expressed in an Anhydrobiotic Tardigrade

(2012) Ayami Yamaguchi et al.   PLoS One

Measurement of mRNA abundance using RNA-seq data: RPKM measure is inconsistent among samples

(2012) Günter P. Wagner et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Survival in extreme environments - on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades

(2011) N. Møbjerg et al.   Acta Physiologica

LEA Proteins During Water Stress: Not Just for Plants Anymore

(2011) Steven C. Hand et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Role of peroxisomes in ROS/RNS-metabolism: Implications for human disease

(2011) Marc Fransen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

Peroxisome assembly: matrix and membrane protein biogenesis

(2011) Changle Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Anhydrobiosis in tardigrades—The last decade

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

Phylogeny and evolution of the Echiniscidae (Echiniscoidea, Tardigrada) - an investigation of the congruence between molecules and morphology

(2011) Aslak Jørgensen et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Extreme stress tolerance in tardigrades: surviving space conditions in low earth orbit

(2011) Dennis Persson et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Intrinsically disordered proteins as molecular shields

(2011) Sohini Chakrabortee et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Saccharomyces Genome Database: the genomics resource of budding yeast

(2011) J. M. Cherry et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Arthropod molecular divergence times and the Cambrian origin of pentastomids

(2011) Kate L. Sanders et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

TreeGraph 2: Combining and visualizing evidence from different phylogenetic analyses

(2010) Ben C Stöver et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Transcriptome survey of the anhydrobiotic tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum in comparison with Hypsibius dujardini and Richtersius coronifer

(2010) Brahim Mali et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Antioxidant defences in hydrated and desiccated states of the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus richtersi

(2010) Angela M. Rizzo et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Proteomic Analysis of Tardigrades: Towards a Better Understanding of Molecular Mechanisms by Anhydrobiotic Organisms

(2010) Elham Schokraie et al.   PLoS One

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Tardigrade Resistance to Space Effects: First Results of Experiments on the LIFE-TARSE Mission on FOTON-M3 (September 2007)

(2009) Lorena Rebecchi et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Reactive oxygen species and peroxisomes: Struggling for balance

(2009) Nina A. Bonekamp et al.   BIOFACTORS

DNA damage in storage cells of anhydrobiotic tardigrades

(2009) Simon Neumann et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Cold stability of intrinsically disordered proteins

(2009) Agnes Tantos et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Evolution of Catalases from Bacteria to Humans

(2008) Marcel Zamocky et al.   ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING

Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit

(2008) K. Ingemar Jönsson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

(2008) Ali Mortazavi et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Enigmatic LEA Proteins and Other Hydrophilins

(2008) M. Battaglia et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY