About the Authors

Oleg Gusev

Contributed equally to this work with: Oleg Gusev, Yuichi Nakahara

Affiliations Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia

Yuichi Nakahara

Contributed equally to this work with: Oleg Gusev, Yuichi Nakahara

Current address: Animal Breeding and Reproduction Research Team, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, Japan

Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Veronica Vanyagina

Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia

Ludmila Malutina

Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia

Richard Cornette

Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Tetsuya Sakashita

Affiliation Microbeam Radiation Biology Group, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan

Nobuyuki Hamada

Affiliation Nuclear Technology Research Laboratory, Radiation Safety Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Kikawada

Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Yasuhiko Kobayashi

Affiliation Microbeam Radiation Biology Group, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan

Takashi Okuda

oku@affrc.go.jp

Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OG YN TO. Performed the experiments: OG YN VV LM TS. Analyzed the data: OG YN RC NH TK YK TO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OG YN TO. Wrote the paper: OG YN TO.