Primer registro de Scelidotheriinae Ameghino (Xenartha, Mylodontidae) del Piso/Edad Chasiquense (Mioceno tardío) de la Argentina [PDF]
Estudios Geologicos, 2014 La subfamilia Scelidotheriinae constituye un grupo de milodóntidos ampliamente representados en el Cuaternario de América del Sur. Sin embargo, el registro fósil de los taxa del Neógeno es aun escaso. En este trabajo se presenta un nuevo ejemplar de esta
A. R. Miño-Boilini +2 more
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Radioprotection redefined: drug discovery at the intersection of tardigrade biology and translational pharmacology [PDF]
Frontiers in PharmacologyIonizing radiation inflicts lethal double-strand DNA breaks and oxidative stress that underlie acute radiation syndrome, secondary malignancies, and dose-limiting toxicity in radiotherapy; yet the conventional armamentarium of radioprotectants ...
Zhitao Cui +4 more
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Lineage-specific expansions of the Dicer gene family in tardigrades [PDF]
BMC GenomicsBackground RNA interference (RNAi) is an important pathway for gene regulation and immunity. Dicer is a conserved RNAi pathway protein that is found in eukaryotes, with many species expressing multiple dicer gene copies.
Bethany Weinberg +3 more
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Extensive loss of Wnt genes in Tardigrada [PDF]
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Wnt genes code for ligands that activate signaling pathways during development in Metazoa. Through the canonical Wnt (cWnt) signaling pathway, these genes regulate important processes in bilaterian development, such as establishing the ...
Raul A. Chavarria +5 more
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The Evolution of Temperature and Desiccation-Related Protein Families in Tardigrada Reveals a Complex Acquisition of Extremotolerance [PDF]
Genome Biology and EvolutionJames F Fleming +2 more
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Aquatic tardigrades in Poland – a review
Limnological Review, 2021 The diversity, distribution and ecology of aquatic Tardigrada in Poland remain poorly known. We reviewed the literature focused on tardigrades in Poland and recognized only 15 aquatic taxa which were reported from various freshwater and marine habitats ...
Kayastha Pushpalata +3 more
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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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Tardigrades and oribatid mites in bryophytes from geothermally active lava fields (Krafla, Iceland) and the description of Pilatobius islandicus sp. nov. (Eutardigrada) [PDF]
Polish Polar Research, 2018 In polar regions, apart from tundra and glaciers, geothermally active areas with elevated temperatures are important elements of ecosystems. One such geothermally active region characterized by mosaic ecosystems and vast areas covered by recent lava ...
Jakub Buda +3 more
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Halloween genes in panarthropods and the evolution of the early moulting pathway in Ecdysozoa [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Moulting is a characteristic feature of Ecdysozoa—the clade of moulting animals that includes the hyperdiverse arthropods and less speciose groups, such as onychophorans, tardigrades and nematodes.
Isabell Schumann +4 more
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The European Zoological Journal, 2021 In this paper we applied an integrative taxonomy approach to describe a new tardigrade species from Madagascar. The description is based on morphological and morphometric data (using both light and scanning electron microscopy), combined with genetic ...
K. A. Kuzdrowska +6 more
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