Examples of extreme survival: tardigrade genomics and molecular anhydrobiology

K Arakawa - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tardigrades are ubiquitous meiofauna that are especially renowned for their exceptional
extremotolerance to various adverse environments, including pressure, temperature, and …

Comparative genomics of the tardigrades Hypsibius dujardini and Ramazzottius varieornatus

Y Yoshida, G Koutsovoulos, DR Laetsch, L Stevens… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Review of extra-embryonic tissues in the closest arthropod relatives, onychophorans and tardigrades

S Treffkorn, G Mayer, R Janssen - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The so-called extra-embryonic tissues are important for embryonic development in many
animals, although they are not considered to be part of the germ band or the embryo proper …

Trehalose and tardigrade CAHS proteins work synergistically to promote desiccation tolerance

K Nguyen, S Kc, T Gonzalez, H Tapia… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Tardigrades are microscopic animals renowned for their ability to survive extreme
desiccation. Unlike many desiccation-tolerant organisms that accumulate high levels of the …

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

P Gąsiorek, D Stec, W Morek, Ł Michalczyk - 2018 - ruj.uj.edu.pl
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 …

In vivo expression vector derived from anhydrobiotic tardigrade genome enables live imaging in Eutardigrada

S Tanaka, K Aoki, K Arakawa - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Water is essential for life, but anhydrobiotic tardigrades can survive almost complete
dehydration. Anhydrobiosis has been a biological enigma for more than a century with …

Multiomics study of a heterotardigrade, Echinisicus testudo, suggests the possibility of convergent evolution of abundant heat-soluble proteins in Tardigrada

Y Murai, M Yagi-Utsumi, M Fujiwara, S Tanaka… - BMC genomics, 2021 - Springer
Background Many limno-terrestrial tardigrades can enter an ametabolic state, known as
anhydrobiosis, upon desiccation, in which the animals can withstand extreme environments …

Protecting activity of desiccated enzymes

S Piszkiewicz, KH Gunn, O Warmuth, A Propst… - Protein …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Protein‐based biological drugs and many industrial enzymes are unstable, making them
prohibitively expensive. Some can be stabilized by formulation with excipients, but most still …

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 …

The evolution of temperature and desiccation-related protein families in Tardigrada reveals a complex acquisition of extremotolerance

JF Fleming, D Pisani, K Arakawa - Genome biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Tardigrada is an ecdysozoan lineage famed for its resilience. Tardigrades can tolerate high
doses of radiation, low-oxygen environments, desiccation, and both high and low …