As natural enemies, parasites can dramatically harm host populations, and even catalyze their decline. Thus, identifying factors that promote disease spread is paramount. Environmental factors can ...
Flourishing in spectacular numbers in lakes and ponds around the world, tiny creatures known as Daphnia play an essential role in freshwater ecology. Daphnia, a type of planktonic crustacean, are the ...
Female D. magna of clone Xinb3 were synchronized and standardized to constant conditions to reduce variation in egg stage, cohort and quality caused by maternal status (i.e., maternal effects), that ...
With significant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating fundamental biological processes that lead to fertility ...
TUCSON: Pharmaceuticals flushed into watersheds are disturbing the reproduction of some aquatic wildlife, a finding with detrimental potential for human health in future, new research released on ...
In populations of a cyclical parthenogen, the diversity of clonal lineages, derived from sexually produced eggs, declines during the parthenogenetic phase. Even though Daphnia magna populations from ...
With significant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating fundamental biological processes that lead to fertility ...