Authors: Matthieu Terwagne, Emilien Nicolas, Boris Hespeels, Ludovic Herter, Julie Virgo, Catherine Demazy, Anne-Catherine Heuskin, Bernard Hallet, Karine Van Doninck
Published: 2022-11-30
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Rotifers of the class Bdelloidea are microscopic animals notorious for their long-term persistence in the apparent absence of sexual reproduction and meiotic recombination. This evolutionary paradox is often counterbalanced by invoking their ability to repair environmentally induced genome breakage. By studying the dynamics of DNA damage response in the bdelloid species