Arctic terrestrial ecosystems are generally considered to be species poor, fragile and often
isolated. Nonetheless, their intricate complexity, especially that of the invertebrate …

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 laboratory strain identified as" Hypsibius dujardini" is one of the best studied tardigrade
strains: it is widely used as a model organism in a variety of research projects, ranging from …

W niniejszej pracy opisuję nowy gatunek niesporczaka Macrobiotus paulinae należącego
do grupy hufelandi, wyekstrahowanego z próby mchu zebranej w kenijskich górach. Oprócz …

This paper is the third monograph of the series that describes the global records of limno-
terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine …

Outdated and inaccurate original descriptions of species nominal for genera or species
complexes give birth to notorious difficulties in species identification and often translate into …

Mexico is a megadiverse country, however its tardigrade fauna is poorly known and to date
44 species have been reported from this region. In the present paper, an update of the …

Providing accurate animals' phylogenies rely on increasing knowledge of neglected phyla.
Tardigrada diversity evaluated in broad phylogenies (among phyla) is biased towards …

Understudied, but ubiquitous in every biome on Earth, tardigrades have been found in
marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats, although ecological studies are still rather …

There is ample evidence that macroscopic animals form geographic clusters termed as
zoogeographic realms, whereas distributions of species of microscopic animals are still …