Heat shock proteins in encysted and anhydrobiotic eutardigrades

Heat shock proteins (Hsps) can help organisms to survive environmental stresses. Tardigrades are aquatic metazoans able to colonize unpredictable, or “hostile to life”, terrestrial habitats entering resting stages such as cysts and anhydrobiotic tuns. In this paper we compared the Hsp70 and Hsp90 ex...

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Main Authors: Lorena Rebecchi, Tiziana Alterio, Deborah Boschini, Roberto Guidetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Limnology
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Online Access:http://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/6