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Desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the green lineage and beyond

New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 6, Page 3159-3175, September 2026.
Ancient origin and recurrent evolution of desiccation tolerance in the green lineage. Summary Water is essential for life on Earth, yet some plants can survive the near‐complete loss of cellular water, a trait known as desiccation tolerance. Although rare in vegetative tissues of vascular plants, desiccation tolerance is scattered across the plant ...
Jenny Schuster, Robert VanBuren
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How long can tardigrades survive in the anhydrobiotic state? A search for tardigrade anhydrobiosis patterns

PLOS ONE, 2023
Anhydrobiosis is a desiccation tolerance that denotes the ability to survive almost complete dehydration without sustaining damage. The knowledge on the survival capacity of various tardigrade species in anhydrobiosis is still very limited. Our research compares anhydrobiotic capacities of four tardigrade species from different genera, i.e.
Milena Roszkowska, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Daria Wojciechowska, Zofia Księżkiewicz, Edyta Fiałkowska, Mateusz Pluskota, Hanna Kmita, Łukasz Kaczmarek   +7 more
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New insights into the limited thermotolerance of anhydrobiotic tardigrades

Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2020
The recent discovery of an upper limit in the tolerance of an extremotolerant tardigrade to high temperatures is astounding. Although these microinvertebrates are able to endure severe environmental conditions, including desiccation, freezing and high ...
Ricardo Cardoso Neves, Robyn M. Stuart, Nadja Møbjerg   +2 more
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Deciphering the Biological Enigma—Genomic Evolution Underlying Anhydrobiosis in the Phylum Tardigrada and the Chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki

Insects, 2022
Anhydrobiosis, an ametabolic dehydrated state triggered by water loss, is observed in several invertebrate lineages. Anhydrobiotes revive when rehydrated, and seem not to suffer the ultimately lethal cell damage that results from severe loss of water in ...
Yuki Yoshida, Sae Tanaka
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The Biodiversity of Retreating Glaciers Leaves an Ecological Legacy in Emerging Soil Communities

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 8, August 2026.
We provide the first multi‐taxa assessment of biodiversity transitions across the supraglacial‐proglacial interface, using eDNA metabarcoding across five glacier systems. Recently deglaciated soils resemble supraglacial communities taxonomically and functionally, markedly for microbes and weakly for animals, with microbial similarity declining rapidly ...
Isabel Cantera, Silvio Marta, Alexis Carteron, Alessia Guerrieri, Simone Giachello, Aurélie Bonin, Roberto Ambrosini, Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Marco Caccianiga, Francesca Pittino, Andrea Simonicini, Barbara Valle, Mauro Gobbi, Gentile Francesco Ficetola   +13 more
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Nearctic freshwater tardigrades: a review

Journal of Limnology, 2007
The distribution and ecology of limno-terrestrial Tardigrada in the Nearctic realm remain poorly known. This is especially true of freshwater tardigrades (i.e., species found in permanently submerged habitats), which have received much less attention ...
Juliana G. HINTON, Harry A. MEYER, Mitchell M. McFATTER   +2 more
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Biophysics of Tardigrade Survival [PDF]

Biophysical Journal, 2016
Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, are microorganisms that can survive extreme conditions: temperatures from −274°C to 151°C, pressures from 0 to 6,000 atmospheres, 1,000 times more radiation than the average animal, 10 days in space and over 20 years of dehydration.
Piszkiewicz, Samantha, Mehta, Aakash, Boothby, Thomas, Goldstein, Bob, Pielak, Gary   +4 more
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Species richness of soil and leaf litter tardigrades in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (North Carolina/Tennessee, USA)

Journal of Limnology, 2013
A large database now exists for tardigrades in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) consisting of 780 samples, 15,618 specimens, and 80 species including 14 new to science. We found 43 species of tardigrades in 150 soil/leaf litter samples. We
Diane R. Nelson, Paul J. Bartels
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From Lawns to Wastelands: Moss Diversity Patterns Across Urban Grasslands

Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 29, Issue 3, July/September 2026.
Urban bryophyte diversity increases with the sand percentage in the topsoil layer and decreases with nitrogen percentage, considered indicators of soil aridity and decreases with soil fertility, respectively, and particularly for acrocarpous species. The impact of vegetation management on mosses varies according to the practices involved, with higher ...
Thomas Begoc, Audrey Muratet, Alejandro Sotillo, Thomas Reinhart, Laurent Hardion   +4 more
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Tardigrades of North America: Additions to Montana’s Biodiversity Including a New Species, Platicrista loloensis nov. sp. (Parachela, Hypsibioidea, Itaquasconinae)

Diversity
A total of 205 tardigrades representing two orders, five families, nine genera and ten species were extracted from a moss sample (104 tardigrades) and a lichen sample (101 tardigrades) collected near Missoula, Montana, in 2016.
Chelsea N. Scheirer, William R. Miller, Jeffrey D. Miller   +2 more
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