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The nature of selection on anhydrobiotic capacity in tardigrades

Jönsson, Ingemar LU (2001) In Zoologischer Anzeiger 240(3-4). p.409-417
Abstract
Tardigrades are well known for their capacity to enter an anhydrobiotic state, and remain ametabolic for several years. Yet the evolutionary background, and the forces of natural selection that act on anhydrobiotic capacity have remained unexplored. In this paper, I review the basic problem of anhydrobiosis and the phenotypic traits that may be the main targets of natural selection for improved anhydrobiotic capacity. I also make an attempt to put anhydrobiosis into a life history perspective, and discuss this life form in the perspective of energetic and genetic constraints.
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Zoologischer Anzeiger
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240
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3-4
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409 - 417
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Elsevier
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0044-5231
DOI
10.1078/0044-5231-00049
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English
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