Labroots

New Epigenetic Mark Discovered in Rotifers Originated in Bacteria

While genes encode for proteins, gene expression has to happen at the right time and place, and there are many things that can influence gene activity, such as small changes in the genome, or genes ...
Labroots

To Ensure Survival, Rotifers Steal an Array of Genes From Microbes

Bdelloid rotifers are tiny freshwater creatures that are smaller than the width of a human hair, but still have a head, mouth, gut, and other structures. New research has shown that these little ...

Zombie worm awakens after 24,000 years: Scientists revive a frozen worm that can survive freezing, starvation and even reproduce without partner

‘Zombie Worm’ revived by scientists: A 24,000-year-old microscopic worm, a bdelloid rotifer, has been revived from Siberian ...
SlashGear

Rotifers May Be Tougher Than Tardigrades

A microscopic creature known as the tardigrade, sometimes called a water bear, is extremely tough and resilient. They're so tough and resilient that NASA has been studying the microscopic creatures in ...
EurekAlert!

Powerful gene editing approach boosts rotifers in pantheon of laboratory animals

Much about tiny, swimming rotifers makes them ideal study subjects. Although barely visible to the naked eye, these transparent animals and their innards are readily viewed under a microscope. What’s ...
GEN

Antibiotic Possibilities Suggested by Antimicrobial Genes Swiped from Bacteria by Rotifers

A group of small, freshwater animals protect themselves from infections using antibiotic recipes “stolen” from bacteria, according to new research by a team from the University of Oxford, the ...
Science Daily

Arctic rotifer lives after 24,000 years in a frozen state

Bdelloid rotifers are multicellular animals so small you need a microscope to see them. Despite their size, they're known for being tough, capable of surviving through drying, freezing, starvation, ...
USA Today

Meet the rotifer, the microscopic animal that came back to life after 24,000 years frozen in Siberian permafrost

A microscopic animal has come back to life and successfully reproduced after being frozen for 24,000 years, according to a study published by Russian scientists on Monday. Bdelloid rotifers, are known ...
The Scientist

Bacterial Enzyme Keeps Rotifers’ Transposable Elements in Check

Bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals found nearly all in freshwater ecosystems worldwide, lack the enzymes that most animals use to silence regions of their genome by attaching chemical tags called ...
Ars Technica

24,000 years on ice weren’t enough to kill these gals

Rotifers are microscopic freshwater-dwelling multicellular organisms. They’re already known to withstand freezing (even in liquid nitrogen), boiling, desiccation, and radiation, and the group has ...
CNN

This animal survived 24,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost

A microscopic animal has been revived after slumbering in the Arctic permafrost for 24,000 years. Bdelloid rotifers typically live in watery environments and have an incredible ability to survive.