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Tardigrade

Tardigrades (/ˈtɑːrdɪɡreɪdz/ ⓘ), also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär 'little water bear'. In 1776, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada, which…

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related to history · 64
Tardigrade → All, Apochela, Apotardigrada, Arctic, Aysheaia, Borealibius, Bärtierchen, Cambrian, Cambrian Kuonamka Formation, Cretaceous, Dominican Republic, Doyère, Doyère's, Echiniscus, Entothyreos, Ernst Marcus, Eutardigrada, Ferdinand Richters, German, Germans
related to Popularity · 21
Tardigrade → American Name Society's Name, Arnhem, Arno Coenen, Current Biology, Earth, Fleming, If, In, James, Kazuhuru Arakawa, Milnesium, Neil, Spallanzani, St Eusebius' Church, Tardigrades, The, The Dutch, The Guardian's, They, Tyson
related to Exposure to space · 14
Tardigrade → Back, Beresheet, Earth, Exposure, FOTON-M3, In, International Space Station STS-134, Israeli, Moon, Only, Tardigrades, UV, UVA, Vacuum
related to Damage protection proteins · 12
Tardigrade → Anhydrobiosis, However, Hypsibius, Instead, Maria Kamilari, Of, RNA, RNA-chaperone, Tardigrades, The, These, Three
related to From science to popular culture · 11
Tardigrade → Arakawa Kazuharu, Cold War, Cosmo Sheldrake, Harbinger Down, He, If, Mark Blaxter, Pressure, Tardigrade Song, The, They
related to Early 20th century beginnings · 9
Tardigrade → Antarctic, Aurora Australis, Bathybia, Douglas Mawson, Finally, Possibly, Published, South Pole, The
related to Genomics · 8
Tardigrade → About, Genomic, Hypsibius, Mb, Panarthropoda, Ramazzottius, Such, The
related to Reproduction and life cycle · 7
Tardigrade → Austeruseus, Both, Females, Hypsibius, In, Some, The
related to Body structure · 6
Tardigrade → Each, In, Most, Tardigrades, The, There
related to External links · 5
Tardigrade → Day, March, Moss, Tardigrada Register Archived, Wayback MachineNASA Astronomy Picture

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tardigrades species body known phylum eggs arthropods may legs proteins many water survive science exposure including extreme echiniscus cuticle amber

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H. annulatus is for the male to place the sperm under the female's cuticleinstance ofA third mechanism in species0.80text
Borealibiusinstance ofSpecies0.80text
Echiniscus lapponicus have a discontinuous distributioninstance ofSpecies0.80text
being both polarinstance ofSpecies0.80text
on tall mountainsinstance ofSpecies0.80text
on lichensinstance ofA small percentage of species may be cosmopolitan.The majority of species live in damp habitats0.80text
liverwortsinstance ofA small percentage of species may be cosmopolitan.The majority of species live in damp habitats0.80text
and mossesinstance ofA small percentage of species may be cosmopolitan.The majority of species live in damp habitats0.80text
and directly in soilinstance ofA small percentage of species may be cosmopolitan.The majority of species live in damp habitats0.80text
leaf litterinstance ofA small percentage of species may be cosmopolitan.The majority of species live in damp habitats0.80text
Macrobiotus acadianus among its preyinstance ofMilnesium lagniappe includes other tardigrades0.80text
nematodesinstance ofTardigrades consume prey0.80text

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