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How do terrestrial Antarctic organisms survive in their harsh environment?

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How do terrestrial Antarctic organisms survive in their harsh environment?

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Anhydrobiosis, or extreme desiccation tolerance, is one of the strategies that allows terrestrial Antarctic organisms to survive in a harsh environment. A new study in BMC Genomics analyses gene expression in an Antarctic nematode during desiccation, and sheds new light on this phenomenon.