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 …
Outdated and inaccurate original descriptions of species nominal for genera or species complexes give birth to notorious difficulties in species identification and often translate into …
Abstract The genus Echiniscus CAS Schultze, 1840, one of the earliest established and speciose tardigrade genera, has been hypothesized to be polyphyletic. Moreover, the …
D Stec, Ł Krzywański, K Zawierucha… - Zoological Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Incomplete descriptions of nominal taxa are one of the most significant obstacles in modern taxonomy, including the taxonomy of Tardigrada. Another major problem in tardigrade …
Intra-and interspecific variability, being at the very core of alpha taxonomy, has been a long- standing topic of debate among tardigrade taxonomists. Early studies tended to assume that …
Intraspecific variability of tardigrades is a poorly investigated field. The great majority of tardigrade species were described using single populations, sometimes even single …
The family Echiniscidae comprises limno-terrestrial heterotardigrades with a strongly sclerotised dorsum, typically covered with plates. Among other members of the Echiniscus …
Glaciers and ice sheets are considered a biome with unique organism assemblages. Tardigrada (water bears) are micrometazoans that play the function of apex consumers on …
KA Short, CJ Sands, SJ McInnes, D Pisani… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antarctica has been isolated and progressively glaciated for over 30 million years, with only approximately 0.3% of its area currently ice-free and capable of supporting terrestrial …