Establishing a culture of limno-terrestrial tardigrada in laboratory and development of alternative

• Main Authors: Silvana Perissato Meneghin, André Arashiro Pulschen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina 2010
• Subjects: Tardigrada. Lab rearing. Cryptobioses. Dessication; Biotechnology; TP248.13-248.65; Food processing and manufacture; TP368-456; Antarctic; Arctic; Water Bears; Antarc*; Tardigrade
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/6bd230e70bcd4d49b1797bcc0523a54b

Tardigrades (Phylum Tardigrada) are invertebrate animals also known as water bears, that occurs almost in everylocations on Earth, from the Arctic to Antarctic, from Himalayan top to the bottom of the ocean. One of the reasonsthat the animals can live in such places lays on his cryptbiotical habilit...