[HTML][HTML] The biomedical potential of tardigrade proteins: A review

N Kasianchuk, P Rzymski, Ł Kaczmarek - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Tardigrades are ubiquitous microinvertebrates exhibiting extreme tolerance to various
environmental stressors like low and high temperatures, lack of water, or high radiation …

Actual checklist of Tardigrada species

P Degma, R Bertolani, R Guidetti - 2019 - iris.unimore.it
More than one thousand Tardigrada species were included in the published checklist
(Guidetti, R. & Bertolani, R. 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa …

A Review on the Genus Paramacrobiotus (Tardigrada) with a New Diagnostic Key

P Kayastha, M Mioduchowska, J Warguła… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Paramacrobiotus species have been described in almost every corner of the world. To date,
45 species have been reported from this genus. Among which, 13 belong to the areolatus …

Integrative taxonomy reveals new, widely distributed tardigrade species of the genus Paramacrobiotus (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae)

P Kayastha, D Stec, Ł Sługocki, M Gawlak… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In a moss sample collected in Ribeiro Frio, Madeira, Paramacrobiotus gadabouti sp. nov.
was found and described using the integrative taxonomy approach. The new species is …

Trophic and symbiotic links between obligate-glacier water bears (Tardigrada) and cryoconite microorganisms

K Zawierucha, A Trzebny, J Buda, E Bagshaw… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Insights into biodiversity and trophic webs are important for understanding ecosystem
functions. Although the surfaces of glaciers are one of the most productive and biologically …

How long can tardigrades survive in the anhydrobiotic state? A search for tardigrade anhydrobiosis patterns

M Roszkowska, B Gołdyn, D Wojciechowska… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Anhydrobiosis is a desiccation tolerance that denotes the ability to survive almost complete
dehydration without sustaining damage. The knowledge on the survival capacity of various …

Pinpointing the microbiota of tardigrades: what is really there?

B Surmacz, D Stec, M Prus‐Frankowska… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microbiota are considered significant in the biology of tardigrades, yet their diversity and
distribution remain largely unexplored. This is partly due to the methodological challenges …

Tips and tricks how to culture water bears: simple protocols for culturing eutardigrades (Tardigrada) under laboratory conditions

M Roszkowska, D Wojciechowska, H Kmita… - The European …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Tardigrades are microinvertebrates inhabiting almost all aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
throughout the world. They are known for their ability to enter into cryptobiosis and to survive …

Host identity is the dominant factor in the assembly of nematode and tardigrade gut microbiomes in Antarctic Dry Valley streams

JP McQueen, K Gattoni, EMS Gendron, SK Schmidt… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Recent work examining nematode and tardigrade gut microbiomes has identified species-
specific relationships between host and gut community composition. However, only a …

Elevated external temperature affects cell ultrastructure and heat shock proteins (HSPs) in Paramacrobiotus experimentalis Kaczmarek, Mioduchowska, Poprawa, & …

P Kayastha, F Wieczorkiewicz, M Pujol, A Robinson… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Increasing temperature influences the habitats of various organisms, including microscopic
invertebrates. To gain insight into temperature-dependent changes in tardigrades, we …