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Tardigrades are host to many microbial symbionts and parasites. In glacial environments, the bacterial genera Flavobacterium, Ferruginibacter, and Polaromonas are common in tardigrades' microbiomes. [6] Many tardigrades are predatory; Milnesium lagniappe includes other tardigrades such as Macrobiotus acadianus among its prey. [7]
Tardigrades' ability to remain desiccated for long periods of time was thought to depend on high levels of the sugar trehalose, [28] common in organisms that survive desiccation. [9] However, tardigrades do not synthesize enough trehalose for this function. [28] Instead, tardigrades produce intrinsically disordered proteins in
For example, the role of viruses ... Marine phages parasite marine bacteria and archaea, such as cyanobacteria. [38] ... cladocera and tardigrades (water bears).
For example, freshwater microfauna in Australia include rotifers, ostracods, copepods, and cladocerans. [4] Rotifers are filter feeders that are usually found in fresh water and water films. They consume a variety of things including bacteria, algae, plant cells, and organic material. [3] Tardigrades inhabit a variety of lichens and mosses.
Predatory nematodes include Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita which is a lethal parasite of gastropods such as slugs and snails. [61] Some members of the genus Steinernema such as Steinernema carpocapsae and Steinernema riobrave are generalist parasites of webworms, cutworms, armyworms, girdlers, some weevils, wood-borers and corn earworm moths. [62]
Milnesium tardigradum can be found worldwide and is one of the biggest species among tardigrades (up to 1.4 mm); similar-looking species have been found in Cretaceous amber. [1] The mouth of this predator has a wide opening, so the animal can eat rotifers and larger protists. Other eutardigrades belong to the order Parachela.
Myzostomida live on crinoids and other echinoderms, mainly as parasites. In the past they have been regarded as close relatives of the trematode flatworms or of the tardigrades, but in 1998 it was suggested that they are a sub-group of polychaetes. [13]
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