A worm that survived 46,000 years in permafrost wows scientists
Emma Bowman, NPR radio, July 30, 2023
[www.npr.org]

Nematode resurrected from Siberian permafrost lay dormant for 46,000 years
By Sascha Pare, LiveScience, July 27, 2023
[www.livescience.com]

Worms Revived After 46,000 Years Frozen in Siberian Permafrost
Scientists want to understand how the worms survived in extreme
conditions for extraordinarily long periods of time.
By Orlando Mayorquin, New York Times, July 29, 2023
[www.nytimes.com]

The open access paper is:

Shatilovich, A., Gade, V.R., Pippel, M., Hoffmeyer, T.T., Tchesunov,
A.V., Stevens, L., Winkler, S., Hughes, G.M., Traikov, S., Hiller, M.
and Rivkina, E., 2022. A novel nematode species from the Siberian
permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival
with C. elegans dauer larva. PLOS Genectics. 19(7): e1010798
[doi.org]
[www.biorxiv.org]

Peer review history
[journals.plos.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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