Extreme resistance of bdelloid rotifers to ionizing radiation

*Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; and
^†Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543

Contributed by Matthew Meselson, January 30, 2008 (received for review November 9, 2007)

Footnotes

↵^‡To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: msm{at}wjh.harvard.edu

Author contributions: E.G. and M.M. designed research; E.G. performed research; E.G. and M.M. analyzed data; and M.M. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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