It probably originated as a response to pressure from predators and parasitoids [ 43, 71– 76], to prevent eggs from desiccation [ 77, 78], to develop a more elaborate manipulation of tradeoffs between air exchange and desiccation in water bugs [ 79– 82], or to represent an adaptation to unstable or ephemeral food resources in cydnid families [ 25, 27, 32, 83, 84].
There has been little rain in Venezuela in the past three years, and a crippling deficit last year in particular a predictable effect of El Niño, the global climate cycle that periodically warms parts of the Pacific Ocean, causing deluges in Texas and Florida, warm weather in eastern Canada, and desiccation in Indonesia and parts of Latin America.
Thus, the DR-ultrafiltrate rendered the ROS-sensitive BamHI highly resistant to ionizing radiation and desiccation in the same range as D. radiodurans survival [3].
In this respect, it has been recently reported that RecA protein is involved in general stress response and resistance to heat shock and desiccation in A. baumannii[ 19].
SbDREB2a, a DREB TF isolated from S. brachiata, induced tolerance to both salinity and desiccation in transgenic tobacco (Gupta et al. 2010, 2014).
To prepare a "colony blot", plasmid DNA was released from bacterial colonies and fixed to the membrane by standard methods employing alkaline lysis, neutralization and desiccation in high salt [ 110].
Kellermann et al. (2009) found a positive correlation between trait mean and genetic variation for cold and desiccation resistance in a species-level study including multiple Drosophila species.
The new function (anti-desiccation) in ancestor Y represents the co-option of the plesiomorphic trait, which allowed the leeches to successfully move from an aquatic to a terrestrial environment.
He would counter such "narrowing and desiccation" with a broad realism: "I seek in poems a revelation of reality, of what is known in Greek as epifaneia".
It seems extremely unlikely that any live organism could be transported to Earth over interplanetary or, worse yet, interstellar distances without being killed by the combined effects of cold, desiccation in a vacuum, and radiation.
Second, adult bdelloids can survive essentially complete desiccation in a state known as anhydrobiosis [ 4].
