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Radiation tolerance in the tardigrade<i>Milnesium tardigradum</i>

DOI

197

Citations

16

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2006

Year

Daiki D. Horikawa, Tetsuya Sakashita, Chihiro Katagiri, Masahiko Watanabe, Takahiro Kikawada, Yuichi Nakahara, Nobuyuki Hamada, Seiichi Wada, Tomoo Funayama, Seigo Higashi,
International Journal of Radiation Biology

Abstract

M. tardigradum survives high doses of ionizing radiation in both hydrated and anhydrobiotic states, but irradiation with >1000 Gy makes them sterile.

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