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Mitochondrial markers of successful anhydrobiosis for representatives of aquatic and terrestrial tardigrades

2016/21/B/NZ4/00131

Keywords:

tardigrades anhydrobiosis mitochondria

Descriptors:

  • NZ4_11: Metabolism
  • NZ3_1: Cell biology
  • ST9_6: Astrobiology

Panel:

NZ4 - Biology of tissues, organs and organisms: morphology and functions of animal's and human's systems, organs and organisms, experimental medicine, basics of neurology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

woj. wielkopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Hanna Kmita 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 6

Call: OPUS 11 - announced on 2016-03-15

Amount awarded: 798 860 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-01-24

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-11-23

Project duration:: 70 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Note - project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. mikroskop stereoskopowy SZ51 z wyposażeniem.
  2. termostat LAUDA E 4S (21 000 PLN)
  3. Komora klimatyczna KBK-100W wersja B (Adverti) (36 000 PLN)
  4. komputer (3 600 PLN)
  5. System Leaflab (Hansatech) (47 700 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (11)
  1. Long-term anhydrobiosis in two taxa of moss dwelling Eutardigrada (Tardigrada) desiccated for 12 and 15 years, respectively
    Authors:
    Milena Roszkowska, Hanna Kmita, Łukasz Kaczmarek
    Academic press:
    The European Zoological Journal (rok: 2020, tom: 87, strony: 642–647), Wydawca: Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/24750263.2020.1829110 - link to the publication
  2. The tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris has the active mitochondrial alternative oxidase that could be studied at animal organismal level
    Authors:
    Daria Wojciechowska, Milena Roszkowska, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Wiesława Jarmuszkiewicz, Andonis Karachitos, Hanna Kmita
    Academic press:
    Plos One (rok: 2021, tom: 16, strony: e0244260.), Wydawca: Public Library of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0244260 - link to the publication
  3. Tolerance to anhydrobiotic conditions among two coexisting tardigrade species differing in life strategies
    Authors:
    Milena Roszkowska, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Daria Wojciechowska, Jakub Z. Kosicki, Edyta Fiałkowska, Hanna Kmita, Łukasz Kaczmarek
    Academic press:
    Zoological Studies (rok: 2021, tom: 60, strony: 74), Wydawca: Springer Open
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.6620/ZS.2021.60-74 - link to the publication
  4. Better to be young and in a group than old and lonely: a study of the factors influencing repeated anhydrobiosis in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus experimentalis (Macrobiotidae)
    Authors:
    Amit Kumar Nagwani, Iwona Melosik, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Hanna Kmita
    Academic press:
    The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Submitted
  5. Mitochondrial alternative oxidase contributes to successful tardigrade anhydrobiosis
    Authors:
    Daria Wojciechowska , Andonis Karachitos, Milena Roszkowska, Wiktor Rzeźniczak, Robert Sobkowiak, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Jakub Z. Kosicki, Hanna Kmita
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Zoology (rok: 2021, tom: 18, strony: 15), Wydawca: BioMed Central Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1186/s12983-021-00400-5 - link to the publication
  6. Tips and tricks how to culture water bears: simple protocols for culturing eutardigrades (Tardigrada) under laboratory conditions
    Authors:
    Milena Roszkowska, Daria Wojciechowska, Hanna Kmita, Sławomir Cerbin, Marcin K. Dziuba, Edyta Fiałkowska, Robert Sobkowiak, Wiktoria Szydło, Łukasz Kaczmarek
    Academic press:
    The European Zoological Journal (rok: 2021, tom: 88, strony: 449–465), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/24750263.2021.1881631 - link to the publication
  7. Verification of Hypsibius exemplaris Gąsiorek et al., 2018 (Eutardigrada; Hypsibiidae) application in anhydrobiosis research
    Authors:
    Izabela Poprawa, Tomasz Bartylak, Adam Kulpla, Weronika Erdmann, Milena Roszkowska, Łukasz Chajec, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Andonis Karachitos, Hanna Kmita
    Academic press:
    Plos One (rok: 2022, tom: 17, strony: e0261485), Wydawca: Public Library of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0261485 - link to the publication
  8. How long can tardigrades survive in the anhydrobiotic state? A search for tardigrade anhydrobiosis patterns
    Authors:
    Milena Roszkowska, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Daria Wojciechowska, Zofia Księżkiewicz, Edyta Fiałkowska, Mateusz Pluskota, Hanna Kmita, Łukasz Kaczmarek
    Academic press:
    Plos One (rok: 2023, tom: 18, strony: e0270386), Wydawca: Public Library of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0270386 - link to the publication
  9. Integrative description of bisexual Paramacrobiotus experimentalis sp. nov. (Macrobiotidae) from republic of Madagascar (Africa) with microbiome analysis
    Authors:
    Łukasz Kaczmarek, Milena Roszkowska, Izabela Poprawa, Kamil Janelt, Hanna Kmita, Magdalena Gawlak, Edyta Fiałkowska, Monika Mioduchowska
    Academic press:
    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (rok: 2020, tom: 145, strony: 106730), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106730 - link to the publication
  10. Staying young and fit? Ontogenetic and phylogenetic consequences of animal anhydrobiosis
    Authors:
    Łukasz Kaczmarek, Milena Roszkowska, Diego Fontaneto, Marta Jezierska, Barbara Pietrzak, Rafał Wieczorek, Izabela Poprawa, Jakub Z. Kosicki, Andonis Karachitos, Hanna Kmita
    Academic press:
    Journal of Zoology (rok: 2019, tom: 309, strony: 45302), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/jzo.12677 - link to the publication
  11. Applicable life-history and molecular traits for studying the effects of anhydrobiosis on aging in tardigrades
    Authors:
    Amit Kumar Nagwani, Łukasz Kaczmarek,Hanna Kmita
    Academic press:
    Diversity (rok: 2022, tom: 14, strony: 664), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/d14080664 - link to the publication