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Environmental Adaptations: Desiccation Tolerance

  • Schill R
  • Hengherr S
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95702-9_10
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Abstract

Survival in microhabitats that experience extreme fluctuations in water availability and temperature requires extreme adaptations. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first who describe the phenomenon of the resurrection of a desiccated rotifer in 1702. As with some...

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Schill, R. O., & Hengherr, S. (2018). Environmental Adaptations: Desiccation Tolerance (pp. 273–293). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95702-9_10

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