Welcome by Professor Giovanni Pilato

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Welcome by Professor Roberto Bertolani

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Introduction to the Proceedings

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Morphology, Taxonomy and Phylogeny

A.M. AVDONINA, N.M. BISEROVA, R. BERTOLANI AND L. REBECCHI. Ultrastructure of the digestive system of Ramazzottius tribulosus and Macrobiotus richtersi (Eutardigrada) in relationship with diet

5-11

J. GULDBERG HANSEN. The deep sea elements of the Faroe Bank tardigrade fauna with a description of two new species.

12-20

E. KIEHL, H. DASTYCH, J. D'HAESE AND H. GREVEN. The 18S rDNA sequences support polyphyly of the Hypsibiidae (Eutardigrada).

21-25

G. PILATO, G. COSTA, E. CONTI, M.G. BINDA AND O. LISI. Morphometric analysis of some metric characters of two Macrobiotus species (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae).

26-32

G. PILATO, P. FONTOURA AND O. LISI. Remarks on the Echiniscus viridis group, with the description of a new species (Tardigrada, Echiniscidae)

33-39

D.V. TUMANOV. Three new species of Macrobiotus (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae, tenuis-group) from Tien Shan (Kirghizia) and Spitsbergen .

40-48

Faunal Studies and Biogeography

C.W. BEASLEY AND W.R. MILLER. Tardigrada of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China

49-55

R. D'ADDABBO, M. GALLO, C. DE LEONARDIS, R. SANDULLI AND S. DE ZIO GRIMALDI. Further studies on the marine tardigrade fauna from Sardinia (Italy) .

56-59

M. GALLO, R. D'ADDABBO, C. DE LEONARDIS, R. SANDULLI AND S. DE ZIO GRIMALDI. The diversity of Indian Ocean Heterotardigrada.

60-64

J.A.E. GIBSON, L. CROMER, J.T. AGIUS, S.J. MCINNES AND N.J. MARLEY. Tardigrade eggs and exuviae in Antarctic lake sediments: insights into Holocene dynamics and origins of the fauna

65-71

J.G. HINTON AND H.A. MEYER. Distribution of limnoterrestrial Tardigrada in Georgia and the Gulf Coast states of the United States of America with ecological remarks.

72-76

A. JØRGENSEN, N. MØBJERG AND R.M. KRISTENSEN. A molecular study of the tardigrade Echiniscus testudo (Echiniscidae) reveals low DNA sequence diversity over a large geographical area .

77-83

M.M. MCFATTER, H.A. MEYER AND J.G. HINTON. Nearctic freshwater tardigrades: a review.

 84-89

S.J. MCINNES AND P.J.A. PUGH. An attempt to revisit the global biogeography of limno-terrestrial Tardigrada.

90-96

H.A. MEYER AND J.G. HINTON. Limno-terrestrial Tardigrada of the Nearctic Realm

97-103

Ecology

P.J. BARTELS AND D.R. NELSON. An evaluation of species richness estimators for tardigrades of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina, USA .

104-110

R. GUIDETTI, C. COLAVITA, T. ALTIERO, R. BERTOLANI AND L. REBECCHI. Energy allocation in two species of Eutardigrada .

 111-118

K.I. JÖNSSON. Long-term experimental manipulation of moisture conditions and its impact on moss-living tardigrades.

 119-125

C.R. MITCHELL AND F.A. ROMANO III. Sexual dimorphism, population dynamics and some aspects of life history of Echiniscus mauccii (Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada).

126-131

N. MØBJERG, A. JØRGENSEN, J. EIBYE-JACOBSEN, K. AGERLIN HALBERG, D. PERSSON AND R. MØBJERG KRISTENSEN. New records on cyclomorphosis in the marine eutardigrade Halobiotus crispae (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae).

 132-140

R. SCHUSTER AND H. GREVEN. A long-term study of population dynamics of tardigrades in the moss Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus (Hedw.) Warnst

141-151

Methodologies

E. KIEHL, H. DASTYCH, J. D'HAESE AND H. GREVEN. A cDNA library of the eutardigrade Hypsibius klebelsbergi Mihelčič, 1959 and analysis of the actin gene.

152-157

M. PFANNKUCHEN, F. BRÜMMER AND R.O. SCHILL. 3-Dimensional reconstruction of fluorescent structures in tardigrades

158-163

R.O. SCHILL. Comparison of different protocols for DNA preparation and PCR amplification of mitochondrial genes of tardigrades

164-170