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Graduate Student Supervisor: Per Lundberg Co-supervisor: Niclas Jonzén
The title for my PhD-project is "Ecological aspects of cryptobiosis". Tardigrades, in English also called water-bears, are small aquatic animals (<1 mm) which can be found in many ecosystems. Most of the terrestrial tardigrades live in mosses, where they require a film of water around their bodies to permit locomotion and gas exchange. There is always a risk of desiccation in mosses, and in response to that tardigrades have developed a strategy of defence. This defence is an ametabolic state, called cryptobiosis. In my PhD-project I am going to study the evolution of cryptobiosis and other forms of dormancy.
The evolution of diapause/cryptobiosis Sexual vs asexual reproduction
IVARSSON, H and Jönsson, K.I. 2004. Aggregation effects on anhydrobiotic survival in the tardigrade, Richtersius coronifer. Journal of experimental zoology 301A: 195-199.
Address: Theoretical Ecology,
Ecology Building, 223 62 Lund , Sweden |
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