Tardigrades are everywhere. They’re tiny — usually under a millimeter long — and they’re mostly transparent, so they’re easy to miss. But you probably walk by them every day. We’ve been grooming them as emerging models for studying how body forms evolve and how biological materials can survive extreme conditions.
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I thank current and former members of my lab, and colleagues, for their work and their intellectual contributions, and the National Science Foundation including current NSF grant IOS 2028860 for long-term support for our research on tardigrades.
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Goldstein, B. Tardigrades. Nat Methods 19, 904–905 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01573-5
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