The researchers also estimate that 0.5–3.1% of the tardigrade’s genes were acquired from other organisms through a process known as horizontal gene transfer. A gene called DODA1, which seems ...

Researchers have now decoded the DNA of two species of tardigrade and uncovered the genes that allow them to be revived after desiccation. The study has been published in the journal, PLOS Biology.

Tardigrades are microscopic animals that survive desiccation by inducing biostasis ... as a crucial component in slowing down ...

Tardigrades are one of the most resilient ... a method is capable of enhancing the tolerance of the microbes against desiccation (completely drying up). This work was published in Nature ...

They have been known to survive for up to 30 years in this desiccated state. 10. Most Tardigrade species are oviparous. This means that the females lay an egg inside their shed cuticle (skin ...

Additionally, researchers say that reading is so easy a brain can do it, everything we know about tardigrades may be ... step-by-step process we associate with spoken language," says linguistics ...