How tardigrades bear dehydration:A new mechanism explains how water bears survive in some extreme conditions
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Published Article
"Stress-dependent cell-stiffening by tardigrade tolerance proteins that reversibly form a filamentous network and gel"
PLOS Biology
Online
September 6, 2022.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001780
Akihiro Tanaka, Tomomi Nakano, Kento Watanabe, Kazutoshi Masuda, Gen Honda, Shuichi Kamata, Reitaro Yasui, Hiroko Kozuka-Hata, Chiho Watanabe, Takumi Chinen, Daiju Kitagawa, Satoshi Sawai, Masaaki Oyama, Miho Yanagisawa, Takekazu Kunieda*
PLOS Biology