Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

The panarthropod head represents a complex body region that has evolved through the
integration and functional specialization of the anterior appendage-bearing segments …

A sister group of the Arthropoda, the Tardigrada are micrometazoans that occupy a diversity
of niches in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial habitats. Commonly called water bears …

An extensive study of the phylogeny of Eutardigrada, the largest class of Tardigrada, has
been performed analyzing one hundred and forty sequences (eighty of which newly …

A laboratory strain identified as" Hypsibius dujardini" is one of the best studied tardigrade
strains: it is widely used as a model organism in a variety of research projects, ranging from …

W niniejszej pracy opisuję nowy gatunek niesporczaka Macrobiotus paulinae należącego
do grupy hufelandi, wyekstrahowanego z próby mchu zebranej w kenijskich górach. Oprócz …

Understudied, but ubiquitous in every biome on Earth, tardigrades have been found in
marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats, although ecological studies are still rather …

Classifying organisms has a wide use and a long history in ecology. However, the meaning
of a 'group of organisms' and how to group organisms is still the subject of much theoretical …

Isohypsibioidea are most likely the most basally branching evolutionary lineage of
eutardigrades. Despite being second largest eutardigrade order, phylogenetic relationships …

For more than a century, the origin and evolution of the arthropod head and brain have
eluded a unifying rationale reconciling divergent morphologies and phylogenetic …