Artemia cysts

Gaubin, Y., M. Depoux, B. Pianezzi, G. Gasset, C. Heilmann, and H. Planel. 1990. Investigations on the effects of cosmic rays on Artemia cysts and tobacco seeds results of Exobloc II experiment, flown aboard Biocosmos 1887. Inter. Jour. Radiation Applic. Instrument. 17 133-144. 

Su, R.Z., M. Kost, and J. Kiefer. 1990. The effect of krypton ions on Artemia cysts. Radiation Environ. Biophys. 29 103-107. 

In the Large Aral Sea the Artemia population appeared in noticeable numbers only in 2000 but earlier a few individuals were reported in the shallow lagoons and from separated salt ponds near the sea [19, 20, 32], The appearance of Artemia in the Aral coincided with the increase in salinity up to 63 ppt. At a salinity of less than about 70 ppt, an Artemia population usually does not develop because of fish predation [35], Most likely Artemia cysts were introduced into the sea by wind or migratory waterfowl [36]. 

LAVENS p and sorgeloos p (1987) The cryptobiotic state of Artemia cysts, its diapanse deactivation and hatching, in Sorgeloos P, Bengtson D A, Decleir W and Jaspers E (eds), Artemia Research and its Applications. Vol. 3. Wetteren Universa Press, 27-63. 

LAVENS P and sorgeloos p (2000) The history, present status and prospects of the availability of Artemia cysts for aquaculture. Aquaculture 181 397-403. 

For dried Artemia cysts as a model system for desiccation tolerant species it has been found out by pulsed NMR measurements that the mobility of water protons unexpectedly increased below a certain residual water content The increased mobility was explained by the existence of intrinsic protective substances such as trehalose and glycerol in the cyst that replace water at the surface of biomolecules and therefore increase molecular mobility. 

J. S. Clegg, Hydration-dependent metabolic transitions and the state of cellular water in Artemia cysts, in J. H. Crowe, J. S. Clegg (Eds.), Dry Biological Systems, New York Academic Press, 1978, pp. 117-154. 

J. S. Clegg, Interrelationships between water and metabolism in Artemia cysts. III. Respiration, Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 53a (1976) 89-92. 

F. Bruni, G. Careri, J. S. Clegg, Dielectric properties of Artemia cysts at low water contents. Evidence for a percolative transition, Biophys. J. 23 (1989) 932-939. 

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