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And Water Bear it Is!
Entry in the DNA and Diversity blog about Hypsibius dujardini, a species of tardigrade whose genome is being sequenced.
http://www.scientificblogging.com/dna_and_diversity/and_water_bear_it_is
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Hardy Li'l Critters will be First Tested in Open Space
News entry in the Boing Boing blog about tardigrades in space.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/26/hardy-lil-critters-w.html
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Genome Sequencing Project
A tardigrade genome sequencing project, launched in 2007.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=genomeprj&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Overview&list_uids=20345
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A Science Prodigy in an Unlikely Place
A New York Times article about a student who, as an eighth grader, studied whether power plants affect local tardigrade diversity
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09Rintel.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=e08a545196e373ba&ex=1362718800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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Tardigrades
Research project by Brandon Shifflett on these interesting animals including their classification, habitat, adaptations, nutrition and reproduction.
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/shifflet_bran/
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World's Hardiest Organisms to Face 3 Years in Space
News from Popular Mechanics that a Russian spaceship that will visit one of Mars' moons will carry tardigrades and some other hardy organisms there and back
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4295922.html
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Top 10 Things Launched Into Space in 2008
Wired story about 2008 space launch cargo, including tardigrades
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-10-things-l.html
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Tardigrade
Wikipedia article about tardigrades
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrada
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Behold the Mighty, Microscopic Water Bear
A short video from NPR's Science Friday about tardigrade research.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99800021
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'Water Bears' are First Animal to Survive Vacuum of Space
News article reporting that tardigrades exposed to the harsh combination of low pressure and intense radiation found in space, have survived and reproduced.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14690
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