Resources
“Tardigrada” has been applied in the past to refer to a suborder of sloths as well as a unique invertebrate phylum also known as the water bears (see <http://www.wordnik.com/words/Tardigrada>), the latter of which is the primary subject of tardiblog. Various resources related to invertebrate tardigrades are listed below. Asterisks (from 1-5 “*”s, the more asterisks, the better) are used to indicate particularly interesting and useful materials below.
Tardigradologists:
- Tardigrade Newsletter–Tardigradologists: <http://www.tardigrada.net/tardigradologists.htm>, Tardigrade Register: <http://www.tardigrada.net/register/> (and <http://www.tardigrada.net/>)
- Carl Johansson, Biology Department, Fresno City College: <http://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/index.aspx?recordid=1186&page=909>
- Diane R. Nelson, East Tennessee State University <http://www.etsu.edu/alumni/awards/05award_Nelson.aspx>
- Dylan Fischer (Forest Ecology) and Clarissa Dirks (Biology), The Evergreen State College: <http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2011-12/programs/fieldandlaboratorybiologyinsouthwesternecosystems-1326>
- Frank Romano, Department of Biology, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL: <http://www.jsu.edu/biology/faculty/romano/index.html> (nominated as International Scientist of the Year, 2005: <http://www.jsu.edu/news/july_dec2005/07152005c.html>), (GulfBase site: <http://gulfbase.org/person/view.php?uid=fromano>)
- Lorena Rebecchi, Department of Animal Biology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia: <http://www.tardigrada.modena.unimo.it/Rebecchi/Rebecchi.htm>
- Lukasz Kaczmarek, Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, A. Mickiewicz University: <http://www.tardigrada.net/editors_lk.htm>
- Nigel Marley, Plymouth University: <http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/nmarley>
- Paul J. Bartels’ webpage from Warren Wilson College: <http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~pbartels/WWC_Site/Welcome.html>, tardigrade resources: <http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~pbartels/WWC_Site/Resources.html> (includes E-Guide to “Smoky Bears,” An electronic key & field guide to Phylum Tardigrade in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: <http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~pbartels/E-Guide/Read_First!.html>*****
- Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, Natural History Museum of Denmark: <http://snm.ku.dk/english/staffsnm/staff/profile/?id=34792>
- Terje Meiers Tardigrade World: <http://tardigrada.info/index.html> (including link to slide collection)
- William R. Miller, Assistant Professor of Biology, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS: <http://www.bakeru.edu/baldwin/prospective-students/degrees/biology/biology-faculty>
Research Context & Questions:
Methods for Collecting and Identifying Tardigrades:
- Aquatic Invertebrates of Alberta: An Illustrated Guide, by Hugh F. Clifford (1991): <http://books.google.com/books?id=8UQ4jHev6voC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=invertebrates+in+moss&source=bl&ots=lXhWlTWunr&sig=dNPu-aJQveiuErz7IQiqqC-_YUY&hl=en&ei=_z9gTe38G4rSsAPbhvzWCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEoQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=invertebrates%20in%20moss&f=false>
- Bears of the Moss (Kansas School Naturalist): <http://www.emporia.edu/ksn/v43n3-may1997/>
- Bears of the Moss (and Lichen) Activity #1: Adaptation is the Key to Survival (includes methods, references, etc. regarding tardigrades, moss and lichens; downloadable PDF available at academic.evergreen.edu/projects/ican/…/TRFcurriculumPart2.pdf) [Note: This is no longer available.]
- Catalog of Organisms: My First Tardigrades (including live collection techniques): <http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2008/04/my-first-tardigrades.html>
- Collection, Culturing, Bioimaging and Species Identification of Tardigrade Species in the Vicinity of Albert Hall, UP Diliman (downloadable PDF available at http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fxa.yimg.com%2Fkq%2Fgroups%2F25301328%2F828878502%2Fname%2Fproject%2Bproposal-%2Btardigrada.pdf&ei=rx9lT8nhGe7RiAL156WjDw&usg=AFQjCNGTLR4els1dOeyMrHNJLyhRn7WpYg&sig2=pM1Pi2LCcjAPrikO7PQSfQ): project+proposal-+tardigrada
- Discover Life In America: Great Smoky Mountains National Park All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory: <http://www.dlia.org/atbi/>, (search the site for “tardigrade” to find details of research involving the tardigrade inventory, statistical analysis of ecological predictors of tardigrade diversity, species effort curves and more; click here for a research publication abstract: <http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4541012?uid=3739960&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=55907529843>) *****
- Hunting for ‘Bears’ in the Backyard (by Dave Walker, UK): <http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay99/dwbear.html>
- LTER Fresno City College Data: <http://tegrity.fresnocitycollege.edu/johansson/>
- Marine Tardigrada (including species list and methods for collection): <http://homepage3.nifty.com/cxj11255/tardigrada/index.html>
- Narcotizing, Slowing Down, and Preserving Microscopic and other Aquatic Animals (from www.modernmicroscopy.com and including details regarding magnesium chloride as a narcotizing agent): <http://www.modernmicroscopy.com/main.asp?article=79&page=8>
- PathFinder Science Network for Student and Citizen Science: <http://www.pathfinderscience.net/tardigrades/>
- Species Distribution Project: Tardigrade Facts (Illinois Wesleyan University; includes interactive online identification key to tardigrades): <http://sun.iwu.edu/~tardisdp/tardigrade_facts.html>
- Taking a Litter Sample (YouTube): <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdnPmYTKD84>
- Tardigrade Resource Collection (Microbial Life Educational Resources [MLER]): <http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/tardigrade/resources.html>
- Tardigrades: In the Classroom, Laboratory, and on the Internet (downloadable PDF available at amcbt.indstate.edu/volume_24/v24-3p3-10.pdf): v24-3p3-10
- The Water Bear Web Base (including the first known illustration of a tardigrade [by Goeze, 1773], and many details such as techniques for collecting maritime [marine] tardigrades): <http://www.baertierchen.de/wbwb.html>
- Zoological Systematics: How to fit water bear individuals into the kingdom of animals (from the Water Bear Web Base, including references for several classic resources on tardigrades): <http://www.baertierchen.de/zoolsyse.html>
Culturing Tardigrades:
Sources of Tardigrade Cultures:
Tardigrades and Microscopy:
Methods for Scanning Electron Microscopy with Tardigrades:
Methods for Fluorescence Microscopy with Tardigrades:
Drawing Tardigrades:
GIS and Tardigrades:
Parasites of Tardigrades:
- An Entomphthoraceous Tardigrade Parasite Producing Small Conidia on Propulsive Cells in Spicate Heads (by Charles Drechshler) <http://www.jstor.org/pss/2481973>
Genetic Analysis of Tardigrades:
Tardigrades—Other Resources:
- 11th International Symposium on Tardigrada: <http://www.tardigrada-symposium-2009.org/general.html#>
- Academy of Natural Sciences – Tardigrade Database: <http://tardigrade.acnatsci.org/lit/>
- BioBlitz uncovers plant, animal species at Saguaro National Park: <http://explorernews.com/news/article_c2ef8cde-0720-11e1-8f09-001cc4c002e0.html>
- BiologyBrowser – Tardigrada: <http://www.biologybrowser.org/taxonomy/term/15818>
- Biosystematics of the Marine Heterotardigrades [non-working link]
- Description of the Phylum Tardigrada (Spallanzani 1777): <http://comenius.susqu.edu/biol/202/animals/protostomes/ecdysozoa/tardigrada/default.htm>
- Extreme Animals (Astrobiology Magazine): <http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/261/extreme-animals>
- Extreme Animals in Your Classroom – Tardigrades (NABT – National Association of Biology Teachers): <http://birenheide.com/nabt/2011/program/single.php?thisid=202>
- Fresno City College Tardigrade Lab Facebook Page: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fresno-City-College-Tardigrade-Lab/205789889453137>
- Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative formed to safeguard the world’s soils: <http://news.lternet.edu/Article2405.html>
- Guide to New Zealand Soil Invertebrates: <http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/tardigrada.php>
- Invertebrate Communities in Mosses: <http://yaquina.info/ybn/nature/km-moss.htm>
- Irwin Loops and Other Tools: <http://www.mcm.edu/~beasleyc/IrwinLps.htm>
- Irwin Loop information at Pathfinderscience.net: <http://www.pathfinderscience.net/tardigrades/cproto1_PublicOldMethod.cfm>
- Lichens, Tardigrades, and SO2: <http://www.pathfinderscience.net/so2/>
- LinkNotes: Tardigrades in Space:<http://rj3sp.blogspot.com/2011/05/tardigrades-in-space.html> (*****good images)
- Mal Webb Site: <http://malwebb.customer.netspace.net.au/watbear.html>
- Mark D. Schram’s webpage (Dr. Schram produces Irwin loops as follows: white – approx. 250 X 400 um, blue – approx. 350 X 650 um, red – approx. 450 X 800 um, and yellow – approx. 650 X 1100 um. Meiofauna people seems to like the smallest (white) size. Loops are $10.00 each (any size) + $6.00 S & H (US).): <http://www.lyon.edu/mark-d.-schram.htm>
- Movement behaviour and video tracking of Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840: <dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=ctz;idno=7901a02>
- Physiological ecology/adaptive biochemistry; dehydration and freezing stress; biological control (Christopher Z. Womersley, Dept. of Zoology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa): <http://www.hawaii.edu/zoology/faculty/womersley.htm>
- Preparing Microscope Slides (Microbus): <http://www.microscope-microscope.org/activities/school/preparing-slides.htm>
- “Tardigrade Candid Camera” (Tardigrades – images/photos): <http://tardigrades.bio.unc.edu/>
- Tardigrade Reference Center (William R. Miller): <http://tardigrade.acnatsci.org/>
- Tardigrade USA and the exciting world of the unseen: <http://tardigrade.us/2011/05/09/welcome/>, <http://tardigrade.us/> and <http://tardigrade.us/nj-tardigrade-survey/>
- Tardigrades – Tardigrada – Bärtierchen (biology, taxonomy, anatomy, etc.): <http://www.tardigrades.de/index.htm>
- Tardigotchi: <http://gajitz.com/experimental-plaything-virtual-pet-meets-microscopic-minion/>
- Tardigrada, Water Bears (Tree of Life Web Project) Tree of Life Web Project: <http://tolweb.org/Tardigrada/2471>
- Tardigrades Are Forever (Motion Pictures Library): <http://www.motionpicturesfactory.com/?p=1324>
- Tardigrade Barcoding Project: <http://tardigradebarcoding.org/?todo=project>
- Tardigrades in Space (TARDIS): <http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/>
- Tardigrades (water bears) (Microbial Life Educational Resources): <http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/tardigrade/>
- Tardigrada (water bears, tardigrades) (biodiversity explorer): <http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/metazoa/tardigrades/>
- TardiRes.ch (CTR – Center of Tardigrade Research): <http://www.tardires.ch/>
- The Tardigrada Page (by Dr. Clark W. Beasley, McMurry University, Abeline, TX, with miscellaneous links including microscope slide preparation): <http://www.mcm.edu/%7Ebeasleyc/tardpage.htm>, <http://www.mcm.edu/~beasleyc/>
- Tardigrade Appreciation Headquarters: <http://www.q7.com/~vvv/tardigrade/>
- Tardigrades (by William R. Miller, American Scientist, Sept./Oct. 2011 – online article): <http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2011/5/tardigrades/1> (***good general introduction to tardigrades)
- Tardigrades at Hastings (including a list of species collected at the Hastings Natural History Reservation, a biological field station of the University of California): <http://www.hastingsreserve.org/invertebrates/Tardigrades/HastingsTardigrades.html>
- Tardigrades: Bears of the Moss (by William R. Miller, including details regarding the use of an Irwin Loop): <http://www.pathfinderscience.net/tardigrades/cbackground.cfm>
- Tardigrades in the exciting world of the unseen (including NJ Tardigrades and preserving and mounting methods and materials): <http://tardigrade.us/?page_id=44>
- WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species – Tardigrada): <http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1276>
