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Biomorph Soft Actuators with Tardigrade‐Like Resilience
Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 46, November 12, 2024.Biomorph soft actuators, made of dual‐layer hydrogel spheres with embedded fluid bubbles, can replicate the unique adaptability features of tardigrades, including their dehydration and rehydration mechanisms. These smart structures are highly resilient to compressive, thermal, and radiation stimuli, demonstrating advanced capabilities such as driving ...
Bidita Salahuddin +4 more
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Carbon balance: A technique to assess comparative photosynthetic physiology in poikilohydric plants
Applications in Plant Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 5, September-October 2024.Abstract Premise Poikilohydric plants respond to hydration by undergoing dry–wet–dry cycles. Carbon balance represents the net gain or loss of carbon from each cycle. Here we present the first standard protocol for measuring carbon balance, including a custom‐modified chamber system for infrared gas analysis, 12‐h continuous monitoring, resolution of ...
Kirsten K. Coe +3 more
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A first look into moss living tardigrades in boreal peatlands
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2024.We investigate for the first time tardigrade community composition in boreal peatlands. Tardigrades are common in boreal peatlands and their abundance and community composition varies across peatland habitat types and microhabitats within peatlands. Abstract Tardigrades (Tardigrada) are a phylum of micrometazoans found in all biomes on Earth, but their
Hennariikka Mäenpää +2 more
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Comparative genomics of the tardigrades Hypsibius dujardini and Ramazzottius varieornatus.
PLoS Biology, 2017 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 horizontal gene transfer in animal evolution.
Yuki Yoshida +11 more
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Development of a Tet-On Inducible Expression System for the Anhydrobiotic Cell Line, Pv11
Insects, 2020 The Pv11 cell line established from an African chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki, is the only cell line tolerant to complete desiccation. In Pv11 cells, a constitutive expression system for Pv11 cells was previously exploited and several reporter ...
Shoko Tokumoto +11 more
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Response of a Terrestrial Polar Ecosystem to the March 2022 Antarctic Weather Anomaly
Earth's Future, Volume 12, Issue 8, August 2024.Abstract Record high temperatures were documented in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, on 18 March 2022, exceeding average temperatures for that day by nearly 30°C. Satellite imagery and stream gage measurements indicate that surface wetting coincided with this warming more than 2 months after peak summer thaw and likely exceeded thresholds for ...
J. E. Barrett +9 more
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Comparative studies on storage cells in tardigrades during starvation and anhydrobiosis
Current Zoology, 2010 The impact of starvation and anhydrobiosis on the number and size of the storage cells in the tardigrade species Milnesium tardigradum, Paramacrobiotus tonollii and Macrobiotus sapiens was investigated to gain more insight on the energetic side of ...
Andy REUNER, Steffen HENGHERR, Franz Brümmer, Ralph O. SCHILL
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Fermentation, 2019 Anhydrobiosis is a unique state of live organisms in which their metabolism is temporary reversibly suspended as the result of strong dehydration of their cells.
Galina Khroustalyova, Alexander Rapoport
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Anhydrobiosis in yeast: activation effect
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 1997 Intracellular substances released into the medium during rehydration of dry yeast cells can significantly improve the quality of a synthetic medium. Acceleration of yeast growth in this medium and increased yield of biomass are observed simultaneously ...
A.I. Rapoport +2 more
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eLifeThe conformational ensemble and function of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are sensitive to their solution environment. The inherent malleability of disordered proteins, combined with the exposure of their residues, accounts for this ...
Shraddha KC +9 more
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