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ReviewBiomolecules2026

DNA and RNA Damage, Protection, and Repair in Desiccation-Tolerant Metazoans.

Maria Kamilari, Nadja Møbjerg, Nikos T Papadopoulos, Antonios Augustinos

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Review in Biomolecules, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Maria KamilariDepartment of Plant Protection Patras, Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization "DIMITRA", 26442 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7960-7598
Nadja MøbjergDepartment of Biology, August Krogh Building, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-5845-9047
Nikos T PapadopoulosDepartment of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, 38446 Volos, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2480-8189
Antonios AugustinosDepartment of Plant Protection Patras, Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization "DIMITRA", 26442 Patras, Greece.

Funding

Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation 7615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Desiccation, ionizing radiation, ultraviolet exposure, and oxidative stress impose severe physicochemical stress that threatens the integrity of both DNA and RNA. Water loss promotes molecular crowding, protein and membrane destabilization, and the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), while rehydration can intensify oxidative injury and expose lesions accumulated during metabolic suppression. As a result, stress-tolerant metazoans must do more than survive water loss: they must also protect, monitor, and restore nucleic-acid integrity. Here, we review how tardigrades, bdelloid rotifers,

Indexed as

DNA DamageDNA RepairAnimalsDehydrationDesiccationExcision RepairOxidative StressRNA DamageTardigradaanhydrobiosisbdelloid rotifersdesiccation tolerancenucleic acid integrityoxidative stresstardigrades

Identifiers

PMID42509752
PMCPMC13407396

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