The Microbial Community of Tardigrades: Environmental Influence and Species Specificity of Microbiome Structure and Composition

Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation

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

The native microbiome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: gateway to a new host-microbiome model

(2016) Philipp Dirksen et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

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

A bacterial filter protects and structures the gut microbiome of an insect

(2016) Michele Caroline Lanan et al.   ISME Journal

Coexisting cryptic species of theLitoditis marinacomplex (Nematoda) show differential resource use and have distinct microbiomes with high intraspecific variability

(2016) S. Derycke et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

(2016) Michal Levin et al.   NATURE

Reply to Bemm et al. and Arakawa: Identifying foreign genes in independentHypsibius dujardinigenome assemblies

(2016) Thomas C. Boothby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The Future of Cell Biology: Emerging Model Organisms

(2016) Bob Goldstein et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Morphological and molecular analyses onRichtersius(Eutardigrada) diversity reveal its new systematic position and lead to the establishment of a new genus and a new family within Macrobiotoidea

(2016) Roberto Guidetti et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Interspecific relationships of tardigrades with bacteria, fungi and protozoans, with a focus on the phylogenetic position ofPyxidium tardigradum(Ciliophora)

(2016) Matteo Vecchi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2016) Tom O. Delmont et al.   PeerJ

Environment shapes the fecal microbiome of invasive carp species

(2016) Jessica J. Eichmiller et al.   Microbiome

Genome sequencing of a single tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini individual

(2016) Kazuharu Arakawa et al.   Scientific Data

Prokaryotic genes in eukaryotic genome sequences: when to infer horizontal gene transfer and when to suspect an actual microbe

(2015) Irena I. Artamonova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Life history traits and reproductive mode of the tardigrade Acutuncus antarcticus under laboratory conditions: strategies to colonize the Antarctic environment

(2015) Tiziana Altiero et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Community assembly of a euryhaline fish microbiome during salinity acclimation

(2015) Victor T. Schmidt et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microbiome structure of the fungid coralCtenactis echinataaligns with environmental differences

(2015) Cornelia Roder et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiosis in an overlooked microcosm: a systematic review of the bacterial flora of mites

(2015) KITTIPONG CHAISIRI et al.   PARASITOLOGY

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 incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods

(2015) L. A. Weinert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacterial Diversity Associated with Cinachyra cavernosa and Haliclona pigmentifera, Cohabiting Sponges in the Coral Reef Ecosystem of Gulf of Mannar, Southeast Coast of India

(2015) C. Jasmin et al.   PLoS One

Suggested Involvement of PP1/PP2A Activity and De Novo Gene Expression in Anhydrobiotic Survival in a Tardigrade, Hypsibius dujardini, by Chemical Genetic Approach

(2015) Koyuki Kondo et al.   PLoS One

Aphid gene of bacterial origin encodes a protein transported to an obligate endosymbiont

(2014) Atsushi Nakabachi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogeny of Eutardigrada: New molecular data and their morphological support lead to the identification of new evolutionary lineages

(2014) Roberto Bertolani et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The microbiome of North Sea copepods

(2013) G. Gerdts et al.   HELGOLAND MARINE RESEARCH

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Distinct antimicrobial peptide expression determines host species-specific bacterial associations

(2013) S. Franzenburg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia

(2013) R. M. Brucker et al.   SCIENCE

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

(2012) V. O. Ezenwa et al.   SCIENCE

Host-Gut Microbiota Metabolic Interactions

(2012) J. K. Nicholson et al.   SCIENCE

Form and function of the feeding apparatus in Eutardigrada (Tardigrada)

(2012) Roberto Guidetti et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Desiccation-tolerance in bdelloid rotifers facilitates spatiotemporal escape from multiple species of parasitic fungi

(2011) CHRISTOPHER G. WILSON   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

On dormancy strategies in tardigrades

(2011) Roberto Guidetti et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Resistance of the anhydrobiotic eutardigrade Paramacrobiotus richtersi to space flight (LIFE-TARSE mission on FOTON-M3)

(2011) Lorena Rebecchi 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

Bayesian community-wide culture-independent microbial source tracking

(2011) Dan Knights et al.   NATURE METHODS

Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Unravelling the effects of the environment and host genotype on the gut microbiome

(2011) Aymé Spor et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fine scale population structure in the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series (Heterotardigrada, Tardigrada) in an Iberian mountain range—When morphology fails to explain genetic structure

(2009) Noemí Guil et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Statistical Methods for Detecting Differentially Abundant Features in Clinical Metagenomic Samples

(2009) James Robert White et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Establishment of a Rearing System of the Extremotolerant Tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus: A New Model Animal for Astrobiology

(2008) Daiki D. Horikawa et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit

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

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY