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Characterization of the hydrobiosis genes in desert medusa
John D Leking, Peter C Pan, Kenji Daijobu, Mary Mesoon
Dry life laboratory, Drought University, San Francisco, USA (JDL, PCP, MM)
Dry water unit, Research Institute on Membrane Fluidity, Tokyo, Japan (KD)
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ABSTRACT (LIMITED TO 300 WORDS)
Life without water is an amazing phenomenon that deserves more attention. While
many laboratories have presented data showing that drying without dying can be found
in many organisms (such as yeasts, seeds, pollens, leaves and roots of resurrection
plants, insect larvae, fungi, rotifers, bacteria, mosses, lichens, ferns, nematodes,
primitive arthropods. ,….), whether desert medusa exhibit cryptogamic properties is...