Radiation tolerance in the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 843-848

  Horikawa, Daiki D ^a,b,c,f   Sakashita, Tetsuya ^c   Katagiri, Chihiro ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^b   Kikawada, Takahiro ^b   Nakahara, Yuichi ^b   Hamada, Nobuyuki ^c,d   Wada, Seiichi ^c   Funayama, Tomoo ^c   Higashi, Seigo ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuhiko ^c   Okuda, Takashi ^b   Kuwabara, Mikinori ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anhydrobiosis; Milnesium tardigradum; Radiation tolerance; Tardigrades

Indexed keywords

HEAVY ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EGG LAYING; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HATCHING; HEAVY ION RADIATION; HYDRATION; INVERTEBRATE; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; LD 50; LIFESPAN; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; INVERTEBRATES; LETHAL DOSE 50; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 33845776522     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09553000600972956     Document Type: Article

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