Tardigrades are microscopic animals found worldwide in aquatic as well as terrestrial
ecosystems. They belong to the invertebrate superclade Ecdysozoa, as do the two major …

In this review we analyze the dormancy strategies of metazoans inhabiting “hostile to life”
habitats, which have a strong impact on their ecology and in particular on the traits of their …

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 …

An extensive study of the phylogeny of Eutardigrada, the largest class of Tardigrada, has
been performed analyzing one hundred and forty sequences (eighty of which newly …

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

Background Many limno-terrestrial tardigrades can enter an ametabolic state, known as
anhydrobiosis, upon desiccation, in which the animals can withstand extreme environments …

We assessed the available morphological evidence to see if this corroborates the paraphyly
in the Parachela (Tardigrada) as suggested by recent molecular data. We reconcile …

Tardigrades constitute a phylum of miniaturized metazoans with ca. 1030 living species, a
fossil record that probably dates back to the Cambrian, and physiological properties that …

The phylum Tardigrada is divided into three classes: Eutardigrada, Mesotardigrada, and
Heterotardigrada. Armoured limno-terrestrial taxa within the family Echiniscidae represent …

The order Calanoida includes some of the most successful planktonic groups in both marine
and freshwater environments. Due to the morphological complexity of the taxonomic …