Volume 43, Number 3, May 1997:
Tardigrades: Bears of the Moss

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Cover photo: A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photograph of Echinicscus darienae Miller, Horning and Dastych 1995, a new species of Heterotardigrade from the Australian Antarctic. The picture was taken at the Center for Electron Microscopy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The scale bar equals 10 um (0.010 mm). The photograph clearly shows two of the characteristics that distinguish this as a nwe species. One, the "accessory spine" on each of the interior claws of each leg and two, the position of the primary clava closer to the external cirri than the internal cirri.

Tardigrades: Bears of the Moss
by William R. Miller

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- collecting tardigrades
- working with tardigrades
- studying tardigrades
- what you are likely to find
- tardigrade life
- tardigrade literature
- what we do not know about tardigrades
- solving puzzles
- working with experts
- teachers
- references

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