Bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals found nearly all in freshwater ecosystems worldwide, lack the enzymes that most animals use to silence regions of their genome by attaching chemical tags called ...

She graduated from Arizona State University, where she studied genetics, cell, and developmental biology. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Bdelloid rotifers are complex, ...

These microscopic creatures, known as bdelloid rotifer, were in a suspended state between life and death — until Russian scientists thawed them. As the microscopic animals “zombie” activated ...