... Horikawa DD, Sakashita T, Katagiri C, Watanabe M, Kikawada T,Nakahara Y, Hamada N, Wada S, Funayama T, Higashi S, et al.: Radi-ation tolerance in the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum. Int JRadiat ... bdelloids indicate that they are an “evolutionary scandal”? Their high radiation tolerance [16]and the sharing of nearly identical alleles between otherwisedistantly related lineages [20] indicate ... estimated that the clonal lineageswere accumulating deleterious amino-acid substitutions atfour times the rate of the sexual lineages, indicating that Newas substantially smaller in the asexual...