Once populations of Daphnia and Bosmina plummeted, the shrimp shifted their diet to a different type of zooplankton, called copepods. And those copepods are dying from fungal infections, the lab ...

Daphnia tinted green after consuming algae. Zooplankton are small, microscopic animals. ... called copepods. And those copepods are dying from fungal infections, ...

Now that the Daphnia genome is published, we have a better understanding of how an animal’s environment impacts cellular machinery. Reference: John K. Colbourne, et al. (2011) The Ecoresponsive Genome ...

In fact Daphnia have an astonishingly large number of genes. "We count more than 31,000 genes," says Colbourne. By comparison, the human genome has more like 23,000 genes. If Guinness tracks such ...

The common water flea - Daphnia pulex - is the first crustacean to have a blueprint made showing the sequence of chemicals that make up genetic code, or genome.

University of Michigan ecologist Meghan Duffy is obsessed with water fleas, or Daphnia, as they’re also called. She’s been catching, inspecting and photographing these sesame seed-sized ...

The Daphnia Histology Reference Atlas (DaHRA) is a new open-access resource that provides detailed images of Daphnia, a key species for environmental research due to its sensitivity to pollution.