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Tardigrade Biology and Ecology

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Anas Malki
Roche (Switzerland)
2
Jonathan D. Hibshman
Southern Methodist University
3
Yuki Yoshida
Meijo University
4
Madhurima Chattopadhyay
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
5
Jasmine A. Nirody
University of Chicago
6
Kenta Sugiura
Keio University Shonan Fujisawa
7
Lei Li
Ministry of Agriculture
8
Yumi Murai
Keio University
9
Yevgen Kiosya
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
10
Yuichiro Hara
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science

Rising Stars Papers

1
Multi-omics landscape and molecular basis of radiation tolerance in a tardigrade
Science|2024
49 cit.
2
Sexual dimorphism in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus metropolitanus transcriptome
Zoological Letters|2024
8 cit.
3
Evolutionarily diverse fungal zoospores show contrasting swimming patterns specific to ultrastructure
Current Biology|2024
7 cit.
4
Transcriptome analysis of the tardigrade <i>Hypsibius exemplaris</i> exposed to the DNA-damaging agent bleomycin
Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B|2024
6 cit.
5
A bacterial expression cloning screen reveals single-stranded DNA-binding proteins as potent desicco-protectants
Cell Reports|2024
4 cit.
6
The spatial transcriptome of the late-stage embryonic and postnatal mouse brain reveals spatiotemporal molecular markers
Scientific Reports|2025
3 cit.
7
Kinematics and coordination of moth flies walking on smooth and rough surfaces
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences|2024
2 cit.
8
Fibril Structure of Desiccation‐Protective Tardigrade Protein CAHS‐8
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2025
2 cit.
9
Absence of independent prognostic impact of node status in M1 prostate cancer: implications from a SEER-based study
International Urology and Nephrology|2025
1 cit.
10
A bacterial expression cloning screen reveals single-stranded DNA-binding proteins as potent desicco-protectants
UNC Libraries|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Daniel Stec
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals
2
Milena Roszkowska
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
3
Shiori Komine
Keio University
4
Kyoko Ishino
Keio University
5
Georgios Koutsovoulos
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
6
Dominik R. Laetsch
University of Edinburgh
7
Piotr Gąsiorek
Natural History Museum Aarhus
8
Jakub Buda
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
9
Witold Morek
Wellcome Sanger Institute
10
Paulo Fontoura
Universidade do Porto

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Demographically explicit scans for barriers to gene flow using gIMble
PLoS Genetics|2023
40 cit.
2
AvP: A software package for automatic phylogenetic detection of candidate horizontal gene transfers
PLoS Computational Biology|2022
35 cit.
3
Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to ‘localism’
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|2023
26 cit.
4
Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada) of South Africa
Zootaxa|2022
25 cit.
5
How long can tardigrades survive in the anhydrobiotic state? A search for tardigrade anhydrobiosis patterns
PLoS ONE|2023
25 cit.
6
Reaching the Monophyly: Re-Evaluation of the Enigmatic Species Tenuibiotus hyperonyx (Maucci, 1983) and the Genus Tenuibiotus (Eutardigrada)
Animals|2022
18 cit.
7
What is a ‘strong’ synapomorphy? Redescriptions of Murray’s type species and descriptions of new taxa challenge the systematics of Hypsibiidae (Eutardigrada: Parachela)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|2023
18 cit.
8
An Integrative Description of Two New <i>Mesobiotus</i> Species (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) with Updated Genus Phylogeny.
PubMed|2022
14 cit.
9
Experimental evidence for snails dispersing tardigrades based on Milnesium inceptum and Cepaea nemoralis species
Scientific Reports|2022
11 cit.
10
Unveiling threats to glacier biota: Bioaccumulation, mobility, and interactions of radioisotopes with key biological components
Chemosphere|2023
10 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Łukasz Michalczyk
Jagiellonian University
2
Suresh Subramani
University of California San Diego
3
Takashi Okuda
Keio University
4
Łukasz Kaczmarek
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
5
Lorena Rebecchi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
6
Roberto Guidetti
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
7
Georg Mayer
University of Kassel
8
Takekazu Kunieda
The University of Tokyo
9
Bob Goldstein
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10
Roberto Bertolani
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Firefly luciferase gene: structure and expression in mammalian cells.
Molecular and Cellular Biology|1987
3.1k cit.
2
A conserved tripeptide sorts proteins to peroxisomes.
The Journal of Cell Biology|1989
1.1k cit.
3
Engineering the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using Cas9-triggered homologous recombination
Nature Methods|2013
1.1k cit.
4
Streamlined Genome Engineering with a Self-Excising Drug Selection Cassette
Genetics|2015
715 cit.
5
A novel, cleavable peroxisomal targeting signal at the amino‐terminus of the rat 3‐ketoacyl‐CoA thiolase.
The EMBO Journal|1991
626 cit.
6
Identification of a peroxisomal targeting signal at the carboxy terminus of firefly luciferase.
The Journal of Cell Biology|1987
484 cit.
7
Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation
Molecular Cell|2017
428 cit.
8
Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein
Nature Communications|2016
420 cit.
9
ULTRASOUND SCREENING FOR SPINA BIFIDA: CRANIAL AND CEREBELLAR SIGNS
The Lancet|1986
401 cit.
10
Identification of peroxisomal targeting signals located at the carboxy terminus of four peroxisomal proteins.
The Journal of Cell Biology|1988
339 cit.

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