What happens with the bacteria and the eucaryote single cell organisms in the body of a tardigrade which have survived the extreme conditions in the space?What you think about the tardigrades as a "life capsules" of many species travelling through the vacuume? Such way many many species can be transported if can be protected by a tardigrade body!
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You can check the following papers on these amazing creatures :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063312001341
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191011000874
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0944200611000250
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643310000280
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734975009000263
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022369708001261
and so on...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=-729751933&_sort=r&_st=13&view=c&md5=3948a1af911e72633e6d65d00233beb7&searchtype=a
Best of luck ;)
Yes, yes, but about about the endosybiotic bacteria in its stomach, and other body parts? In our human body there are hundreds of species inside/over us. Tardigrades could be as "Noah - arcs" traveling thtough space and caring hundreds of species protected inside! It is just a theory which by low resources I cannot check here :(
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Dilian
May if having bacteria carried inside the tardigrade provide some sort of mutual benefit for both, but if it is just about protection, then microbes can be protected easily from cosmic radiation by a thin layer or inorganic material such as cosmic dust, meteorite or a comet.
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