Introductory Text – Preface

The proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Tardigrada contain 23 peer-reviewed papers, published as an issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. In the current issue, the papers are diversified and engaging. They cover a wide range of themes such as taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, ecology, reproductive and developmental biology, biochemistry, adaptive strategies, genetics, genomics and metabolomics