Exopolysaccharides (EPSs) are an important class of biopolymers with great ecological
importance. In natural environments, they are a common feature of microbial biofilms, where …

Blood in healthy organisms is seen as a 'sterile'environment: it lacks proliferating microbes.
Dormant or not-immediately-culturable forms are not absent, however, as intracellular …

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

Environmental metabolomics is the application of metabolomics to characterise the
interactions of organisms with their environment. This approach has many advantages for …

Insect diapause is a dynamic process consisting of several successive phases. The
conception and naming of the phases is unsettled and, sometimes, ambiguous in the …

Robustness is one of the fundamental characteristics of biological systems. Numerous
reports have been published on how robustness is involved in various biological processes …

Tardigrada, a phylum of meiofaunal organisms, have been at the center of discussions of the
evolution of Metazoa, the biology of survival in extreme environments, and the role of …

Metabolic rate depression is an important survival strategy for many animal species and a
common element of hibernation, torpor, aestivation, anaerobiosis, diapause, and …

Tardigrades are ubiquitous meiofauna that are especially renowned for their exceptional
extremotolerance to various adverse environments, including pressure, temperature, and …

Information related to varied uses of several species of the genus Artemia (commonly known
as brine shrimp), is dispersed among literature from several scientific areas, such as …