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Aslak Jørgensen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, with a research focus that predominantly intersects Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Medicine. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of subjects such as Tardigrade Biology and Ecology, Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology, Spaceflight effects on biology, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Planetary Science and Exploration, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Recent publications by Aslak Jørgensen include the following papers:

  • Actinarctus doryphorus (Tanarctidae) DNA barcodes and phylogenetic reinvestigation of Arthrotardigrada with new A. doryphorus and Echiniscoididae sequences, 2023, Zootaxa
  • Extreme freeze-tolerance in cryophilic tardigrades relies on controlled ice formation but does not involve significant change in transcription, 2022, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • 20 years of Zootaxa: Tardigrada (Ecdysozoa: Panarthropoda), 2021, Zootaxa
  • Corrigendum to "Extreme freeze-tolerance in cryophilic tardigrades relies on controlled ice formation but does not involve significant change in transcription" [Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 271 (2022), 111245], 2022, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • RISE OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU: LEVERAGING CLIMATE MODELS, STRATIGRAPHY, AND CARBONATE CLUMPED-ISOTOPE THERMOMETRY TO DISENTANGLE TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC SIGNALS FROM THE MIOCENE BIDAHOCHI FORMATION, NAVAJO NATION, AZ, USA, 2024, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent publication venues for Aslak Jørgensen's work include:

  • Zootaxa
  • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jørgensen are:

  • Nadja Møbjerg
  • Ask Møbjerg
  • Miyako Kodama
  • Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal
  • Ricardo Cardoso Neves

Best Publications

  • Survival in extreme environments - on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades.

    Nadia Møbjerg;Kenneth Halberg;Aslak Jørgensen;Dennis Persson

  • A molecular study of the tardigrade Echiniscus testudo (Echiniscidae) reveals low DNA sequence diversity over a large geographical area

    Aslak Jørgensen;Nadja Møbjerg;Reinhardt M. Kristensen

  • Extreme stress tolerance in tardigrades: surviving space conditions in low earth orbit

    Dennis Persson;Kenneth A. Halberg;Aslak Jørgensen;Claudia Ricci

  • Molecular phylogeny of Arthrotardigrada (Tardigrada).

    Aslak Jørgensen;Søren Faurby;Jesper G. Hansen;Nadja Møbjerg

  • An upgraded comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Tardigrada tree of life

    Noemi Guil;Aslak Jørgensen;Reinhardt Kristensen

  • Comparative transcriptomics suggest unique molecular adaptations within tardigrade lineages

    Maria Kamilari;Aslak Jørgensen;Morten Schiøtt;Nadja Møbjerg

  • Molluscan Models in Evolutionary Biology: Apple Snails (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) as a System for Addressing Fundamental Questions*

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  • Desiccation tolerance in the tardigrade Richtersius coronifer relies on muscle mediated structural reorganization.

    Kenneth Agerlin Halberg;Aslak Jørgensen;Nadja Møbjerg

  • Molecular phylogeny of Tardigrada—investigation of the monophyly of Heterotardigrada

    Aslak Jørgensen;Reinhardt M Kristensen

  • Modeling freshwater snail habitat suitability and areas of potential snail-borne disease transmission in Uganda.

    Anna-Sofie Stensgaard;Aslak Jørgensen;Narcis B. Kabatereine;Carsten Rahbek

  • Genetic diversity of schistosomes and snails: implications for control

    David Rollinson;Joanne P. Webster;Bonnie Webster;Silvester Nyakaana

  • Phylogeny and biogeography of African Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae), with emphasis on endemic species of the great East African lakes

    Aslak Jørgensen;Thomas K. Kristensen;J. Russell Stothard

  • Phylogeny and evolution of the Echiniscidae (Echiniscoidea, Tardigrada) – an investigation of the congruence between molecules and morphology

    Aslak Jørgensen;Nadja Møbjerg;Reinhardt M. Kristensen

  • New records on cyclomorphosis in the marine eutardigrade Halobiotus crispae (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae)

    Nadja Møbjerg;Aslak Jørgensen;Jette Eibye-Jacobsen;Kenneth Agerlin Halberg

  • An investigation of the “Ancyloplanorbidae” (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Hygrophila): preliminary evidence from DNA sequence data

    Aslak Jørgensen;Thomas K Kristensen;J.Russell Stothard

  • Molecular phylogenetic investigations of the Viviparidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda) in the lakes of the Rift Valley area of Africa

    Mita E. Sengupta;Thomas K. Kristensen;Henry Madsen;Aslak Jørgensen

  • Comparative Investigation of Copper Tolerance and Identification of Putative Tolerance Related Genes in Tardigrades.

    Thomas L. Hygum;Dannie Fobian;Maria Kamilari;Aslak Jørgensen

  • Morphology and Functional Anatomy

    Nadja Møbjerg;Aslak Jørgensen;Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen;Ricardo C. Neves

  • Ongoing revision of Echiniscoididae (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea), with the description of a new interstitial species and genus with unique anal structures

    Nadja Møbjerg;Aslak Jørgensen;Reinhardt M Kristensen

  • The birth of an endemic species flock: demographic history of the Bellamya group (Gastropoda, Viviparidae) in Lake Malawi

    Roland SCHULTHEIß;Thomas Wilke;Aslak Jørgensen;Christian Albrecht

  • A dichotomous key to the genera of the Marine Heterotardigrades (Tardigrada)

    Paulo Fontoura;Paul J. Bartels;Aslak Jørgensen;Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen

  • Phylogeography of North Atlantic intertidal tardigrades: refugia, cryptic speciation and the history of the Mid-Atlantic Islands

    Søren Faurby;Søren Faurby;Aslak Jørgensen;Reinhardt M. Kristensen;Peter Funch

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen University of Copenhagen
J. Russell Stothard
J. Russell Stothard Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Søren Faurby
Søren Faurby University of Gothenburg
David Rollinson
David Rollinson Natural History Museum
Bonnie L. Webster
Bonnie L. Webster Natural History Museum
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Joanne P. Webster
Joanne P. Webster Royal Veterinary College
Martin Grosell
Martin Grosell University of Miami
Penelope Vounatsou
Penelope Vounatsou University of Basel
Janina Kneipp
Janina Kneipp Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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