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Description
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A list of all described Tardigrada
species prepared and updated regularly by
Peter Degma,
Roberto
Bertolani &
Roberto Guidetti.
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Tardigrade nucleotide sequences in
GenBank.
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The Tardigrade Barcoding Project (TBP) is a global effort to
coordinate studies, discover new species, provide a practical
tool for specimen identification, and promote scientific
investigation into these fascinating animals.
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Fauna Europaea
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A list of European tardigrades and their distribution.
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FUNCRYPTA
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FUNCRYPTA is a tardigrade project which objectives are:
(a) 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,
(b) to relate known dynamic cellular procedures during the
anhydrobiotic stage in order to understand the background of
anhydrobiotic changes, and
(c) 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. |
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Gebhard
Kraft's Tardigrada page
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Lots of Tardigrada links.
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Goldstein Lab
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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.
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Key to tardigrade genera
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A web-based picture key to most common tardigrade genera. Good for
kids and novice tardigradologists. The website by
Karen Lindahl & Susie
Balse contains also a few more sections on tardigrades. |
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Martin
Mach's Monthly Journal on Tardigrada
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A collection of interesting photos and short movies with live
tardies. German version of the web also available.
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Mike Shaw's Tardigrada page
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Plenty of tardigrade links. |
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News
and Requests on Tardigrada Biology
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A page maintained by Nigel Marley.
You can post there any news and requests concerning Tardigrada.
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SYNTHESYS
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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
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Tardigrade Analyzer
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A web-based comprehensive tool, especially designed for Tardigrade genome and
proteome analysis. |
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Tardigrada in ITIS
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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. |
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Tardigrades In Space (TARDIS)
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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. |
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Water Bear song!
:-)
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If you follow the link you'll find lyrics and the .mp3 file with
the Water Bear song by Mal Webb. |
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Wikipedia on Tardigrada
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Tardigrades in Wikipedia, in over 30 languages. |
