What can we learn from the toughest animals of the Earth? Water bears (tardigrades) as multicellular model organisms in order to perform scientific preparations for lunar exploration

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-102

  Guidetti, Roberto ^a   Rizzo, Angela Maria ^b   Altiero, Tiziana ^a   Rebecchi, Lorena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anhydrobiosis; Environmental extremes; Lunar exploration; Space biology; Tardigrada

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROBIOSIS; DORMANT STATE; DRY STATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMES; GROUND BASED; LIVING ORGANISMS; LONG DURATION; LOW EARTH ORBITS; MULTICELLULAR MODEL; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; SPACE BIOLOGY; SPACE MISSIONS; STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION; TARDIGRADA;

EXPERIMENTS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LUNAR MISSIONS;

ANIMALS;

EID: 84870774499     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.05.021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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