Publications

  1. Jönsson KI und Schill RO (2007). Induction of Hsp70 by desiccation, ionising radiation and heat-shock in the eutardigrade Richtersius coronifer. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B 146, 456-460. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2006.10.111.

  2. Schill RO und Steinbrück, G (2007). Identification of tartigrade species using 18S rDNA restriction site variation. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45, 184-190. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2007.00409.x.

  3. Pfannkuchen M, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2007). 3-Dimensional reconstruction of fluorescent structures in tardigrades. Journal of Limnology 66, 158-163.

  4. Schill RO (2007). Comparison of different protocols for DNA preparation and PCR amplification of mitochondrial genes of tardigrades. Journal of Limnology 66, 164-170.

  5. Schill RO, Huhn F und H-R Köhler (2007). First report of tardigrades on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Zoology in the Middle East 42, 83-88.

  6. Hengherr S, Heyer AG, Köhler H-R und Schill RO (2008). Trehalose and anhydrobiosis in tardigrades - evidence for divergence in desiccation tolerance strategies. FEBS Journal 275, 281-288. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06198.x. (Titelbild)

  7. Hengherr S, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2008). Anhydrobiosis in tardigrades and its effects on longevity traits. Journal of Zoology 275, 216-220. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00427.x.

  8. Reuner A, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2008). Heat shock proteins (Hsp70) and water content in the estivating Mediterranean Grunt Snail (Cantareus apertus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 151(1), 28-31.

  9. Schill RO und Fritz GB (2008). Desiccation tolerance in embryonic stages of the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum. Journal of Zoology 276 (1), 103-107. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00474.x.

  10. Jönsson KI, Rabbow E, Schill RO, Harms-Ringdahl M und Rettberg P (2008). Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit. Current Biology 18 (17), R729 - R731.

  11. Mali  B, Grohme M, Welnicz W, Dandekar T, Schnölzer M, Reuter D, Schill R und Frohme M (2008). Genomic analyses of cryptobiotic tardigrades. Wissenschaftliche Berichte der TFH - Technische und forschende Hochschule Wildau, 35-39.

  12. Schill RO, Mali B, Dandekar T, Schnölzer M, Reuter D und Frohme M (2009). Molecular mechanisms of tolerance in tardigrades: New perspectives for preservation and stabilization of biological material. Biotechnology Advances 27, 348-352. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2009.01.011.

  13. Hengherr S, Reuner A, Worland R, Brümmer F und Schill R O (2009). Freeze tolerance, super cooling points and ice formation: comparative studies on the subzero temperature survival of limno-terrestrial tardigrades. Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 802-807. doi: 10.1242/jeb.025973

  14. Neumann S, Reuner A, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2009). DNA damage in storage cells of anhydrobiotic tardigrades. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 153, 425-429. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.04.611.

  15. Guidetti R, Schill RO, Bertolani R, Dandekar T und Wolf T (2009). New molecular data for tardigrade phylogeny, with the erection of Paramacrobiotus gen. nov. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 47 (4), 315–321.

  16. Hengherr S, Worland MR, Reuner A, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2009). Divergence in high temperature tolerance and evidence for a vitreous state in tardigrades during anhydrobiosis. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 82 (6), 749-755. doi: 10.1086/605954.

  17. Förster F, Liang C, Shkumatov A, Beisser D, Engelmann JC, Schnölzer M, Frohme M, Müller T, Schill RO und Dandekar T. (2009). Tardigrade workbench: Comparing stress-related proteins, sequence-similar and functional protein clusters as well as RNA elements in tardigrades. BMC Genomics 10, 469. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-469.

  18. Reuner A, Hengherr S, Mali B, Förster F, Arndt D, Reinhardt R, Dandekar T, Frohme M, Brümmer F,  Schill RO (2010). Functional role of stress proteins in anhydrobiotic tardigrades. Cell Stressand Chaperones 15 (4), 423-430. doi 10.1007/s12192-009-0158-1.

  19. Schokraie E, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Warnken U, Mali B, Frohme M, Förster F, Dandekar T, Hengherr S, Schill RO und Schnölzer M (2010). Proteomic analysis of tardigrades: towards a better understanding of molecular mechanisms by anhydrobiotic organisms. PLoS ONE 5(3): e9502. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009502

  20. Shcherbakov D, Schill RO, Brümmer F und Blum M (2010). Movement behaviour and video tracking of Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840 (Eutardigrada, Apochela). Contributions to Zoology 79 (1), 33-38.

  21. Hengherr S, Reuner A, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2010). Ice crystallization and freeze tolerance in embryonic stages of tardigrades. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 156 (1), 151-155. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.01.015. 

  22. Reuner A, Hengherr S, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2010). Comparative studies on storage cells in tardigrades during starvation and anhydrobiosis. Current Zoology 56 (2), 259-263.

  23. Mali B, Grohme M, Förster F, Dandekar T, Schnölzer S, Reuter D, Welnicz W, Schill RO und Frohme M (2010). Transcriptome survey of the anhydrobiotic tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum in comparison with Hypsibius dujardini and Richtersius coronifer. BMC Genomics 11, 168. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-168.

  24. Schill RO, Förster F, Dandekar T und Wolf M (2010). Distinguishing species in Paramacrobiotus (Tardigrada) via compensatory base change analysis of internal transcribed spacer 2 secondary structures, with the description of four new species. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution (4), 287-296.  

  25. Lemloh M-L, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2011). Life history of bisexual tardigrades: Macrobiotus tonollii and Macrobiotus sapiens. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49 (1), 58-61. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00599.x.

  26. Schokraie E, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Warnken U, Frohme m, Dandekar T, Schill RO und Schnölzer M (2011). Investigating heat shock proteins of anhydrobiotic tardigrades using shotgun proteomics approaches. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49 (1), 111-119. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00608.x.

  27. Förster F, Beisser D, Frohme M, Schill RO und Dandekar T (2011). Tardigrade bioinformatics: Molecular adapations, DNA j-family and dynamical modeling. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49 (1), 120-126. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00609.x.

  28. Grohme M, Mali B, Schill RO, Frohme M (2011). cDNA representational difference analysis for the identification of transcripts regulated under anhydrobiosis in the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum (Doyére 1840). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49 (1), 127-132. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00610.x.

  29. Schill RO, Jönsson KI, Pfannkuchen M und Brümmer F (2011). Food of tardigrades: A case study to understand food choose, intake and digestion. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49 (1), 66-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00601.x.

  30. Welnicz W,  Grohme M, Kaczmarek L, Schill RO und Frohme M (2011). ITS-2 and 18S rRNA data from Macrobiotus polonicus and Milnesium tardigradum (Eutardigrada, Tardigarada). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49 (1), 34-39.

  31. Hengherr S, Heyer AG, Brümmer F und Schill RO (2011). Trehalose and vitreous states - desiccation tolerance of dormant stages of the crustaceans Triops and Daphnia. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84 (2), 147-153. doi: 10.1086/658499.

  32. Hengherr S, Schill RO und Clegg J (2011). Mechanisms associated with cellular desiccation tolerance in the animal extremophile Artemia. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 48 (3), 249-257. doi:10.1086/659314.

  33. Hengherr S und Schill RO (2011). Dormant stages in freshwater bryozoans – an adaptation to transcend environmental constraints. Journal of Insect Physiology. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.03.018.

  34. Welnicz W, Grohme M, Kaczmarek L, Schill RO und Frohme M (2011). Anhydrobiosis in Tardigrades - the last decade. Journal of Insect Physiology. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.03.019.