Don't be Tardy...grade: Wacky Studies into the Resilience of Water bears
Don't be Tardy...grade: Wacky Studies into the Resilience of Water bearsDescription
Radiation, and freezing, and drought oh my! Tardigrades are resistant to all this and more. Emily shows Clara the weird and wacky side of scientific studies including one that shot tardigrades out of a gun. To learn about the only animal that can (BEAR-ly) survive in space, make sure to listen to this week's episode of right up your algae.
Tardigrades as a potential model organism in space research: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2006.0088
New species of water bear uses fluorescent “shield” to survive lethal UV radiation:
University of Florida Entomology and Nematology
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/MISC/tardigrade.html
Tardigrade Survival Limits in High-Speed Impacts—Implications for Panspermia and Collection of Samples from Plumes Emitted by Ice Worlds
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2405
Recovery and reproduction of an Antarctic tardigrade retrieved from a moss sample frozen for over 30 years
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224015300134
Tardigrade survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(08)00805-1.pdf
Survival in extreme environments – on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades
United States
