Two new species of Tardigrada from moss cushions (Grimmia sp.) in a xerothermic habitat in northeast Tennessee (USA, North America), with the first identification of males in the genus Viridiscus

BACKGROUND: The phylum Tardigrada consists of over 1,300 species that inhabit terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments throughout the world. In terrestrial habitats they live primarily in mosses, lichens, leaf litter and soil, whereas tardigrades in freshwater and marine environments are main...

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Autores principales: Nelson, Diane R., Adkins Fletcher, Rebecca, Guidetti, Roberto, Roszkowska, Milena, Grobys, Daria, Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Biodiversity
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282552
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10251

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282552
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10251

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