An anhydrobiotic insect, Polypedilum vanderplanki as a tool for astrobiology

Larvae of African chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki represent highly developed mechanism of anhydrobiotic conservation of metabolism which allowing them to stay alive for many years in the absence of water and be utilized as a model organisms in long-term projects, including the spaceflight. In this paper we shortly overview the main properties of anhydrobiosis of the larvae and describe the main space experiments where the insect was used as a model organism for investigation of influence of spaceflight environment of latent stages of invertebrates.
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