The tetracoccal TWiM team visits Tardigrades on the Moon, and the twelve year quest to isolate an archaeon that provides insights into the emergence of the first eukaryotic cell.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt
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Links for this episode
- Tardigrades on the moon (Mashable)
- Meet the Tardigrade (WaPo)
- Archaeon at prokaryote-eukaryote interface (bioRxiv)
- Letters read on TWiM 205
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Always happy to hear about tardigrades, and delighted to hear about them from TWiM!
The “tardigrades on the moon” issue has been fun. I was interviewed on the topic here:
https://www.livescience.com/moon-tardigrades-future.html?fbclid=IwAR14n5f0C7N-pgtF50M2cggFmtjVsNlB7UXcklfPhZMH5zQ7XEYYU9YqVSY
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