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Characterising Intraspecific Resource Use in a Rotifer Grazer Using High‐Throughput Phenotyping

Freshwater Biology, Volume 70, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT 1. Understanding how adaptation to fluctuating resource availability drives life‐history trade‐offs, and in turn promotes niche differentiation among species, is central to ecology. The gleaner–opportunist framework, in which gleaners are better adapted to low resource levels and opportunists to high levels, represents one way in which ...
Claus‐Peter Stelzer
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Barcoding rotifer biodiversity in Mediterranean ponds using diapausing egg banks [PDF]

, 2017
The biodiversity of Mediterranean freshwater bodies is among the most threatened worldwide; therefore, its accurate estimation is an urgent issue. However, traditional methods are likely to underestimate freshwater zooplankton biodiversity due to its ...
Conde-Porcuna, José M., Gómez, Africa, Africa Gómez, José M. Conde-Porcuna, Moreno, Emilio, Emilio Moreno   +5 more
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Rotifer cryptic diversity: case study Keratella cochlearis

, 2015
Traditional taxonomy may underestimate biodiversity because of the occurrence of cryptic species (i.e. different morphologically indistinguishable species). This seems to be especially true for microscopic animals such as rotifers.
Weisse, T., Obertegger, Ulrike, Cieplinski, Adam   +2 more
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Three's a crowd: The relationship among endoparasites, an epibiont and their Daphnia host

Oikos, Volume 2025, Issue 8, August 2025.
In freshwater communities, organisms interact in a variety of ways, including predation, competition and parasitism. Parasites are ubiquitous, playing an important role in shaping freshwater communities. Endoparasites live within internal organs of their host, while ectoparasites, also known as epibionts, are confined to the external part of the host's
Ofir Hirshberg, Frida Ben‐Ami
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Sexual reproductive biology of a colonial rotifer Sinantherina socialis (Rotifera: Monogononta): do mating strategies vary between colonial and solitary rotifer species?

, 2013
In many aquatic invertebrates including monogonont rotifers, sex provides genetic variation and dormant stages that allow for dispersal in time and space.
Walsh, Elizabeth J, Rico Martinez, Roberto, Roberto Rico-Martínez (472930), Elizabeth J. Walsh (472931)   +3 more
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The influence of environmental variables on freshwater rotifers of the family Brachionidae and Lecanidae in Thailand

Tropical Zoology, 2017
This study investigates the influence of limnological parameters that are known to influence rotifer species richness and composition in temperate areas on two families of monogonont rotifers in a tropical area.
Phannee Sa-ardrit, Pornsilp Pholpunthin, Hendrik Segers, Diego Fontaneto   +3 more
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Metformin and Dietary Restriction Counteract Aging via Reducing m6A–Dependent Stabilization of Methionine Synthase mRNA in Brachionus asplanchnoidis (Rotifera)

Aging Cell, Volume 24, Issue 8, August 2025.
Metformin and dietary restriction modulate m6A to extend lifespan of rotifer, highlighting MTR as a central regulator of aging through methionine metabolism. ABSTRACT Metformin, a medication primarily used to treat diabetes, has gained attentions for its potential antiaging properties.
Yu Zhang, Xiaojie Liu, Hairong Lian, Yanchao Chai, Yang Zhou, Dongqi Kan, Jilong Ren, Cui Han, Jiaxin Yang   +8 more
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Asymmetric Micro‐Evolutionary Responses in a Warming World: Heat‐Driven Adaptation Enhances Metal Tolerance in a Planktonic Rotifer, but Not Vice Versa

Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 7, July 2025.
Rapid genetic adaptation is a potentially important mechanism by which natural populations can increase their tolerance to human‐induced environmental stressors. In our study, we demonstrated that zooplankton populations adapted to heat stress exhibited increased tolerance to copper toxicity.
Shuwen Han, Paul J. Van den Brink, Steven A. J. Declerck   +2 more
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Adapting to an increasingly stressful environment: Experimental evidence for ‘micro‐evolutionary priming’

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 94, Issue 5, Page 863-873, May 2025.
Our study shows that exposure to low stress makes zooplankton populations more tolerant to extreme stress. This phenomenon, here called micro‐evolutionary priming, is rarely studied in animals. We provide strong evidence for its existence and explore its implications for the fate of populations in an increasingly stressful world.
Shuwen Han, Paul J. Van den Brink, Steven A. J. Declerck   +2 more
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Assessment of the water quality of ten Waikato lakes based on zooplankton community composition. CBER Contract Report No. 60 [PDF]

, 2007
Zooplankton communities were documented from ten Waikato lakes from net haul samples collected in late 2006 and from species hatched from diapausing eggs in sediments collected in early 2007.
Duggan, Ian C.
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