RevisedCornechiniscus(Heterotardigrada) and new phylogenetic analyses negate echiniscid subfamilies and tribes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Echiniscidae are undoubtedly the most thoroughly studied lineage of the class Heterotardigrada. Recently, new subfamilies and tribes grouping echiniscid genera based on traditionally recognized morphological clues have been proposed. Here, by integrative
Piotr Gasiorek, Łukasz Michalczyk
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Multiomics study of a heterotardigrade, Echinisicus testudo, suggests the possibility of convergent evolution of abundant heat-soluble proteins in Tardigrada [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2021 Background Many limno-terrestrial tardigrades can enter an ametabolic state, known as anhydrobiosis, upon desiccation, in which the animals can withstand extreme environments.
Yumi Murai +6 more
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Homology of the head sensory structures between Heterotardigrada and Eutardigrada supported in a new species of water bear (Ramazzottiidae: Ramazzottius) [PDF]
Zoological Letters, 2023 Phylum Tardigrada is represented by microscopic eight-legged panarthropods that inhabit terrestrial and marine environments. Although tardigrades are emerging model animals for areas of research including physiology, evolutionary biology, and ...
Ji-Hoon Kihm +3 more
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Phylogeography and morphological evolution of Pseudechiniscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Tardigrades constitute a micrometazoan phylum usually considered as taxonomically challenging and therefore difficult for biogeographic analyses. The genus Pseudechiniscus, the second most speciose member of the family Echiniscidae, is commonly regarded ...
Piotr Gąsiorek +3 more
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The importance of being integrative: a remarkable case of synonymy in the genus Viridiscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) [PDF]
Zoological Letters, 2021 There are two predominant sources of taxonomically useful morphological variability in the diverse tardigrade family Echiniscidae: the internal structure and surface sculpture of the cuticular plates covering the dorsum (sculpturing) and the arrangement ...
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Echiniscus testudo (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018 The complete mitchondrial genome of Echiniscus testudo, a cosmopolitan heterotardigrade collected in Japan, has been sequenced using a single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing long read after whole genome amplification from a single individual.
Kazuharu Arakawa
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New Indomalayan Nebularmis species (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) provoke a discussion on its intrageneric diversity [PDF]
Zoological Letters, 2021 Recent years have brought undeniable progress in tardigrade taxonomy, and speciose complexes were detected in a number of phylogenetic lineages. The family Echiniscidae is one such lineage; it is one of the most diverse groups of limno-terrestrial ...
Piotr Gąsiorek +5 more
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Halechiniscidae (Heterotardigrada, Arthrotardigrada) of Oura Bay, Okinawajima, Ryukyu Islands, with descriptions of three new species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2015 Marine tardigrades of the family Halechiniscidae (Heterotardigrada: Arthrotardigrada) are reported from Oura Bay, Okinawajima, one of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, including Dipodarctus sp., Florarctus wunai sp. n., Halechiniscus churakaagii sp.
Shinta Fujimoto
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Comparative myoanatomy of Tardigrada: new insights from the heterotardigrades Actinarctus doryphorus (Tanarctidae) and Echiniscoides sigismundi (Echiniscoididae) [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Tardigrada is a group of microscopic invertebrates distributed worldwide in permanent and temporal aquatic habitats. Famous for their extreme stress tolerance, tardigrades are also of interest due to their close relationship with Arthropoda ...
Dennis Krog Persson +5 more
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The European Zoological JournalTardigrades, or water bears, are microscopic invertebrates renowned for their extraordinary resilience and cryptic diversity. Their microscopic size, paucity of taxonomically distinctive morphological characters and limited molecular data have caused ...
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