How do terrestrial Antarctic organisms survive in their harsh environment?

ABSTRACT: Anhydrobiosis, or extreme desiccation tolerance, is one of the strategies that allows terrestrial Antarctic organisms to survive in a harsh environment. A new study in BMC Genomics analyses gene expression in an Antarctic nematode during desiccation, and sheds new light on this phenomenon.

SUBMITTER: Wharton DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2688913 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature