Long-term survival has been one of the most studied of the extraordinary physiological characteristics of cryptobiosis in micrometazoans such as nematodes, tardigrades and rotifers. In the available studies of long-term survival of micrometazoans, instances of survival have been the primary observation, and recovery conditions of animals or subsequent reproduction are generally not reported. We therefore documented recovery conditions and reproduction immediately following revival of tardigrades retrieved from a frozen moss sample collected in Antarctica in 1983 and stored at −20 °C for 30.5 years. We recorded recovery of two individuals and development of a separate egg of the Antarctic tardigrade, Acutuncus antarcticus, providing the longest records of survival for tardigrades as animals or eggs. One of the two resuscitated individuals and the hatchling successfully reproduced repeatedly after their recovery from long-term cryptobiosis. This considerable extension of the known length of long-term survival of tardigrades recorded in our study is interpreted as being associated with the minimum oxidative damage likely to have resulted from storage under stable frozen conditions. The long recovery times of the revived tardigrades observed is suggestive of the requirement for repair of damage accrued over 30 years of cryptobiosis. Further more detailed studies will improve understanding of mechanisms and conditions underlying the long-term survival of cryptobiotic organisms. (Tsujimoto et al., Cryobiology doi:10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.12.003)
Repetitive patterns in rapid optical variations in the nearby black hole binary V404 Cygni (*再生に際してBGMの音量に注意)
著者:木邑真理子, 磯貝桂介, 加藤太一, 上田佳宏 (京都大学), 中平聡志 (JAXA), 志達めぐみ (理研), 榎戸輝揚, 堀貴郁, 野上大作 (京都大学), Colin Littlefield (Wesleyan University、アメリカ), 石岡涼子, Ying-Tung Chen, Sun-Kun King, Chih-Yi Wen, Shiang-Yu Wang, Matthew J. Lehner, Megan E. Schwamb, Jen-Hung Wang, Zhi-Wei Zhang (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica、台湾), Charles Alcock (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics、アメリカ), Tim Axelrod (University of Arizona、アメリカ), Federica B. Bianco (New York University、アメリカ), Yong-Ik Byun (Yonsei University、韓国), Wen-Ping Chen (National Central University、台湾), Kem H. Cook (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica、台湾), Dae-Won Kim (Max Planck Institute、ドイツ), Typhoon Lee (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica、台湾), Stuart L. Marshall (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University、アメリカ), Elena P. Pavlenko, Oksana I. Antonyuk, Kirill A. Antonyuk, Nikolai V. Pit, Aleksei A. Sosnovskij, Julia V. Babina, Aleksei V. Baklanov (Crimean Astrophysical Observatory、クリミア), Alexei S. Pozanenko, Elena D. Mazaeva (Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences、ロシア), Sergei E. Schmalz (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics、ドイツ), Inna V. Reva (Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute、カザフスタン), Sergei P. Belan (Crimean Astrophysical Observatory、クリミア), Raguli Ya. Inasaridze (Ilia State University、アメリカ), Namkhai Tungalag (Mongolian Academy of Sciences、モンゴル), Alina A. Volnova, Igor E. Molotov (Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences、ロシア), Enrique de Miguel (Universidad de Huelva、スペイン), 笠井潔 (スイス), William L. Stein (アメリカ), Pavol A. Dubovsky (Vihorlat Observatory、スロバキア), 清田誠一郎 (千葉), Ian Miller (イギリス), Michael Richmond (Rochester Institute of Technology、アメリカ), William Goff (ギリシャ), Maksim V. Andreev (Russian Academy of Sciences、ロシア), 高橋弘允 (広島大学), 小路口直冬, 杉浦裕紀, 竹田奈央, 山田英史, 松本桂 (大阪教育大学), Nick James (イギリス), Roger D. Pickard (The British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (BAA VSS)、イギリス), Tam?s Tordai (Hungarian Astronomical Association、ハンガリー), 前田豊 (長崎), Javier Ruiz (Observatorio de Cantabria、スペイン), 宮下敦 (成蹊気象観測所、東京), Lewis M. Cook (Center for Backyard Astrophysics、アメリカ), 今田明 (京都大学) & 植村誠 (広島大学)(プレスリリース 平成28年1月7日 京大、JAXA、RIKEN、広島大学)
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