Here you will find links to web pages dealing with or related to Tardigrada

The websites are listed in alphabetical order. The icon 'NEW' appears until one month after a website was added to the list. Announcements are in italics.
 

 Website/link 

 Description 

11th International Symposium on Tardigrada 

Official website of the 11th International symposium on Tardigrada which will be held in Germany, from the 02.08.2009. to the 07.08.2009.

10th International Symposium on Tardigrada 
 

Official website of the 10th International symposium on Tardigrada which was held in Catania (Italy), from 18. to 23.06.2006. Pictures from this Symposium are available here.

Clark Beasley's Tardigrada page 

 

Fauna Europaea

A list of European tardigrades and their distribution.

FUNCRYPTA
 
FUNCRYPTA is a tardigrade project which objectives are:

(i) to identify genes, enzymes and their products, whose value for stabilizing cells has been documented, on entering, during and after the anhydrobiotic stage in tardigrades,

(ii) to relate known dynamic cellular procedures during the anhydrobiotic stage in order to understand the background of anhydrobiotic changes, and

(iii) to develop mathematical methods to understand and quantify mechanisms, dynamics and driving forces of anhydrobiosis in order to predict changes and to provide a scientific baseline for further investigation and development of products required to stabilize cells.

Gebhard Kraft's Tardigrada page 

Lots of Tardigrada links.

Tardigrada in ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
 

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990's as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The ITIS mission is to create a scientifically credible database of taxonomic information, placing  primary focus on taxa of interest to North America, with world treatments included, as available.

Martin Mach's Monthly Journal on Tardigrada

A collection of interesting photos and short movies with live tardies. German version of the web also available.

Goldstein Lab

People at the University of North carolina (USA) who are are developing a tardigrade species as a new model system for studying how the evolution of developmental mechanisms can alter animal morphology.

News and Requests on Tardigrada biology 

A page maintained by a British tardigradologist Nigel Marley. You can post there any news and requests concerning Tardigrada.

Synthesys
 

SYNTHESYS: The Natural History Museum, London, in collaboration with 19 European natural history museums and botanic gardens has been successful in securing a FPVI European-funded Integrated Infrastructure Initiative grant, called SYNTHESYS.
This five-year grant comprises two parts which together aim to create an integrated European infrastructure for researchers in the natural sciences.
Tardigrade Analyzer
 
Tardigrade Analyzer 1.01 is a web-based comprehensive tool. It is specially designed for Tardigrade (waterbear) genome and proteome analysis. A user-friendly interface has been implemented for data browsing and open reading frame (ORF) investigations. Typical BLAST programs are integrated into the software package for accquiring a rapid analysis, i.e., Blastp, Blastx, etc. In addition, software enables users to warehouse and manage their own sequence databases within this analysis platform. The main program is implemented in Perl using a MySQL database.

Tardigrades In Space (TARDIS)
 

Tardigrades In Space or "TARDIS" is the first research project to evaluate the ability of tardigrades to survive under open space conditions. TARDIS is one of the projects within the Biopan-6 research platform provided by European Space Agency (ESA), and will be sent into space with the russian FOTON-M3 mission.
Website by Ingemar K. Jonsson.

Water Bear song!
 

If you follow the link you'll find lyrics and the .mp3 file with the Water Bear song by Mal Webb.

Wikipedia on Tardigrada
 

Tardigrades in Wikipedia, in 30 languages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Last update: 09-06-2008
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(2004-2008)