A Strain of the Antarctic Tardigrade Retrieved from the Frozen Moss Sample (IMAGE)

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A Strain of the Antarctic Tardigrade Retrieved from the Frozen Moss Sample

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This is Acutuncus antarcticus, an individual of the strain of one of the Antarctic tardigrades revived, SB-3, showing chlorella inside its stomach. Scale bar, 0.1 mm.

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Tsujimoto et al. 2016 Cryobiology (photo by Megumu Tsujimoto (NIPR))

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