The water flea has genetically adapted to climate change. Biologists compared 'resurrected' water fleas -- hatched from 40-year-old eggs -- with more recent specimens to reach this conclusion.

The water flea has genetically adapted to climate change. Biologists from KU Leuven, Belgium, compared 'resurrected' water fleas -- hatched from 40-year-old eggs -- with more recent specimens.

At the beginning of the 20th century, only one species of water flea (Daphnia hyalina) occurred abundantly in the two lakes studied. As eutrophication developed, this was displaced by another ...

When the water flea senses predators in its ... That means 20-year-old Daphnia populations can be resurrected and compared with modern hatchlings. Even after the dormant eggs are no longer ...

Matthew Walsh, an associate professor of biology, traveled to Utah this summer to collect sediment cores containing the preserved eggs of Daphnia, or water fleas, from lakes in the fallout zone of ...

The water flea species Daphnia pulex is barely more than a millimeter long, is completely translucent, has no clear divisions between their various body. Skip to content Search . Home; ...

The genome of the water flea, Daphnia pulex, has been sequenced by an international team of researchers, including Dietmar Kueltz, professor of animal science at UC Davis. And it turns out to hold a ...

Human reproduction starts with the production of a healthy sperm and egg, which occurs through a cell division process called meiosis—a major focus of Xu's study of parthenogenesis. "Genetically ...

E xcept in appearance, the transparent little water flea called Daphnia magna is a good deal like a human being. In the words of Professor Arno Viehoever of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy ...

The water flea has genetically adapted to climate change. Biologists from KU Leuven, Belgium, compared 'resurrected' water fleas—hatched from 40-year-old eggs—with more recent specimens. The ...