Experiences with dormancy in tardigrades

Tardigrades often colonise extreme habitats, in which they survive using both types of dormancy: quiescence and diapause. Together with nematodes and bdelloid rotifers, tardigrades are known to enter quiescence (with several forms of cryptobiosis: anhydrobiosis, cryobiosis, anoxybiosis, osmobiosis)...

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Main Authors: Deborah BOSCHINI, Ingemar K. JÖNSSON, Tiziana ALTIERO, Roberto BERTOLANI, Roberto GUIDETTI, Lorena REBECCHI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2004-09-01
Series:Journal of Limnology
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Online Access:http://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/276