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1 March 2009 High Hydrostatic Pressure Tolerance of Four Different Anhydrobiotic Animal Species
Daiki D. Horikawa, Ken-Ichi Iwata, Kiyoshi Kawai, Shigenobu Koseki, Takashi Okuda, Kazutaka Yamamoto
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Abstract

High hydrostatic pressure (HHP) can induce physical changes in DNA, proteins, and lipids, causing lethal or sublethal damage to organisms. However, HHP tolerance of animals has not been studied sufficiently. In this study, HHP tolerance of four species of invertebrate anhydrobiotes (the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum, a nematode species in the family Plectidae, larvae of Polypedilum vanderplanki, and cysts of Artemia franciscana), which have the potential to enter anhydrobiosis upon desiccation, were investigated by exposing them to 1.2 GPa for 20 minutes. This exposure killed the anhydrobiotes in their ordinary hydrated state, but did not affect their survival in the anhydrobiotic state. The results indicated that the hydrated anhydrobiotes were vulnerable to HHP, but that HHP of 1.2 GPa was not sufficient to kill them in anhyrdobiosis.

© 2009 Zoological Society of Japan
Daiki D. Horikawa, Ken-Ichi Iwata, Kiyoshi Kawai, Shigenobu Koseki, Takashi Okuda, and Kazutaka Yamamoto "High Hydrostatic Pressure Tolerance of Four Different Anhydrobiotic Animal Species," Zoological Science 26(3), 238-242, (1 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.26.238
Received: 20 June 2008; Accepted: 1 December 2008; Published: 1 March 2009
KEYWORDS
anhydrobiosis
Anostraca
Chironomidae
Nematoda
Tardigrada
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