Carbonylation accumulation of the <i>Hypsibius exemplaris</i> tardigrade.

Average intensity of the in situ carbonylation staining of active (A) and anhydrobiote (B) tardigrade in response to rising UVC doses or during anhydrobiote aging (C). Errors bars indicate the standard deviation from at least three repeated experiments. Total animals scored was n = 34 for (A), n = 20 for (B) and n = 37 for (C). The asterisk represents the respective significant difference of the Kruskall-Wallis test at P2 = 0.998 for (A), y = 0.087 x + 9.07; R2 = 0.990 for (B) and y = 0.36 x + 9.92; R2 = 0.88 for (C). The respective Spearman’s correlation coefficient are Pρ = 0.76 for (A) and Pρ = 0.91 for (B). The mini-circle marks a less significant difference (Kruskall-Wallis’s test, P<0.1) with carbonyl accumulation of the desiccated tardigrade at 73 days (C).