Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dormant state induced by drought in which an organism becomes almost completely dehydrated and reduces its metabolic activity to an imperceptible level, occurring in small invertebrates such as tardigrades and in some plant seeds.
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- noun A form of
cryptobiosis that occurs in situations of extremedesiccation .
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Examples
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With a few exceptions, anhydrobiosis is normally seen in microscopic animals.
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With a few exceptions, anhydrobiosis is normally seen in microscopic animals.
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"They enter a state called anhydrobiosis," he says.
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In research published in Science Translational Medicine today (17 February) a team of scientists in the United Kingdom preserved model live virus vaccines by exploiting a natural process called anhydrobiosis, where organisms survive in suspended animation within sugars that can be dried to form 'glass'.
SciDev.Net 2010
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The second problem with the authors 'reasoning is that it is highly unlikely that the ability to survive anhydrobiosis will be retained if there is no need for it.
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Neither group displays the ability to undergo anhydrobiosis.
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Neither group displays the ability to undergo anhydrobiosis.
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Therefore, the authors conclude that, because anhydrobiosis confers on an animal an unprecedent [sic] advantage for life in several extreme and hostile conditions it would be expected that such [a] trait would be positively selected and kept during evolution.
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But these problems don't stop the authors from speculating on the potential applications of anhydrobiosis in humans (somehow assuming that their hypothesis has been proven correct).
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Therefore, the authors conclude that, because anhydrobiosis confers on an animal an unprecedent [sic] advantage for life in several extreme and hostile conditions it would be expected that such [a] trait would be positively selected and kept during evolution.
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