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Expanding the taxonomic catalog of Brazilian meiofauna: diversity and distribution of the neglected phyla Tardigrada, Gastrotricha, and Kinorhyncha [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba)Meiofauna is a guild of microscopic organisms (delimited by the mesh width of two sieves, upper 500 μm and lower 44 μm) that inhabit the sediment grains and periphyton of aquatic environments (both freshwater and marine).
André R.S. Garraffoni +6 more
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Five animal phyla in glacier ice reveal unprecedented biodiversity in New Zealand's Southern Alps
Scientific Reports, 2021 Glacier ice is an extreme environment in which most animals cannot survive. Here we report the colonization of high elevation, climate-threatened glaciers along New Zealand’s southwestern coast by species of Arthropoda, Nematoda, Platyhelminthes ...
Daniel H. Shain +5 more
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2008 Os métodos “Jarra”, “Remocao Manual” e “Draga de Eckman modificada” foram avaliados para amostrar a fauna perifitica associada a macrofitas aquaticas. Foram coletadas 63 amostras em cinco ambientes lenticos e tres loticos na reserva da biosfera da Serra ...
Helena Lucia Menezes Ferreira +2 more
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Memorias del II Encuentro Latinoamericano de Tardigradología
IntropicaLos tardígrados son organismos ampliamente reconocidos por su extraordinaria capacidad de resiliencia y su tolerancia a condiciones extremas. De manera análoga, la comunidad científica de Latinoamérica, que con pocos recursos, gran recursividad y ...
Rosana Londoño, Sigmer Y. Quiroga
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New records of Mexican Tardigrada
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2011 In 9 moss samples collected from Mexico, 6 tardigrade species, including 4 new records for the country, were found. The new records raise the number of known Mexican water bear species to forty-one.
Łukasz Kaczmarek +2 more
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Establishing a culture of limno-terrestrial tardigrada in laboratory and development of alternative [PDF]
Evidência, 2010 Tardigrades (Phylum Tardigrada) are invertebrate animals also known as water bears, that occurs almost in everylocations on Earth, from the Arctic to Antarctic, from Himalayan top to the bottom of the ocean. One of the reasonsthat the animals can live in
Silvana Perissato Meneghin +1 more
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A checklist of Norwegian Tardigrada
Fauna Norvegica, 2017 Animals of the phylum Tardigrada are microscopical metazoans that seldom exceed 1 mm in length. They are recorded from terrestrial, limnic and marine habitats and they have a distribution from Arctic to Antarctica. Tardigrades are also named ‘water bears’
Terje Meier
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First record of the tardigrade Echiniscus testudo (Doyère, 1840) from northeast of Iran (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2018 Tardigrada is a phylum closely allied with the arthropods. They are small (0.05-1.20 mm), hygrophilous micrometazoans, have four pairs of lobe-like legs and are either carnivorous or feed on plant material.
farahnaz Molavi +4 more
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Journal of Limnology, 2013 12th International Symposium on TARDIGRADA.Proceedings Guest EditorsLorena Rebecchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)Diane R. Nelson (East Tennessee State University, USA)Roberto Bertolani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy ...
Lorena Rebecchi +3 more
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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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