Reversible intracellular acidification and depletion of NTPs provide a potential physiological origin for centuries of dormancy in an Antarctic freshwater copepod

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Reed, Katherine A., Williamson, R. Thomas, Lee, Sung Gu, Lee, Jun Hyuck, Covi, Joseph A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Boeckella; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427605/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37582969; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40180-y

A great diversity of crustacean zooplankton found in inland and coastal waters produce embryos that settle into bottom sediments to form an egg bank. Embryos from these banks can remain dormant for centuries, creating a reservoir of genetic diversity. A large body of literature describes the ecologi...