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, ...

After the work on calanoid copepod resting eggs that can survive for 300 years (ref. 4), studies on egg banks (analogous to seed banks) focused on Daphnia 5,6.Understanding the dynamics of the egg ...

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 ...

On this Earth Day 2019, we celebrate water fleas and ecologist Meghan Duffy. Duffy studies how these water fleas maintain healthy waterways and fight deadly diseases.

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 ...

For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. The organism is often used for science experiments exploring water toxicity, because of its sensitivity to ...

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.