Highlight: Tardigrades and the Science of Extreme Survival
McGrath 2024
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"Tardigrades also possess stress resistance genes that can be found in animals more broadly, such as the meiotic recombination 11 (MRE11) gene, which has been implicated in desiccation tolerance in other animals."
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The Evolution of Temperature and Desiccation-Related Protein Families in Tardigrada Reveals a Complex Acquisition of Extremotolerance
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Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation
Boothby et al. 2017
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