Scientists have brought back to life Nematode worms that have been buried 130 feet under the Siberian permafrost for between 45,839 and 47,769 years according to Carbon-14 tests. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany have now bred these worms for over 100 generations (worm generations are about 10 days long) and they say it is a species of Nematode that has never been seen before. They call it "Panagrolaimus kolymaensis". The lead researcher says:
*"Basically, you only have to bring the worms into amenable conditions, on a culture (agar) plate with some bacteria, some humidity and room temperature, they just start crawling around then. They also just start reproducing. In this case this is even easier, as it is an all-female (asexual) species. They don‘t need to find males and have sex, they just start making eggs, which develop."* A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva <https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010798> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 8gg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3k3LV1D5%3DDB%2BX9wsP-dce66bngNX-gJcmVvkRZd55W6w%40mail.gmail.com.
