Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31601840,41673080)。
A new freshwater rotifer Cephalodella changdensis sp.nov.discovered in two locations in Changde,Hunan,China,is described morphologically.The new species is characterized by body shape moderately elongate,double eyespo...
The study aims to ascertain the hypothesis on the rich rotifer biodiversity of the floodplain lakes (beels) of the Brahmaputra river basin and to use these metazoans to assess trophic status or to characterize habit...
La Cantera Oriente is a shallow freshwater volcanic water body located at an altitude of 2 270 m above sea level in the Ecological Reserve of San Angel Pedregal of Mexico City (Mexico). In order to ensure the conser...
Zooplankton and 14 abiotic variables were studied during August 2011 at 10 stations in Lake Qarun, Egypt. Stations with the lowest salinity and highest nutrient concentrations and turbidity were close to the discharge...
Supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología(Conacyt)through the scholarship(Grant No.136453);Sistema Nacional de Investigadores(Grant No.49351).
Objective:To identify the presence of joint muscular and cholinergic systems in two freshwater rotifer species,Brachionus calyciflorus and Lecane quadridentata.Methods:The muscle actin fibers were stained with phalloi...
This work has been done under the Socrates-Erasmus Student Mobility Programme (in Gent University and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences). ACKN0WLEDGEMENTS Thank Dr. Hendrik Segers for helping identifying some rotifer species and giving opportunity to study at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium. Also thank Prof. Dr. Henri J. Dumont (Gent University, Belgium) for collecting some of the samples.
Thirteen rotifer species belonging to the families Lepadellidae and Trichocercidae were studied taxonomically from nine water bodies in Turkey. Lepadella biloba is a new entry to the Turkish rotifer fauna. All species...
This research was funded by a grant from PAPIIT—IN204101.SSSS and SN also thank National System of Investigators(SNI一18723&20520)
Due to industrial activities,heavy metal concentrations in aquatic systems of Mexico,are on the rise.Zooplankton,particularly rotifers,being sensitive and common components of freshwater,are widely used in ecotoxicolo...
Of more than 90 rotifer taxa found in Denghu Lake and its nearby ponds in Wuhan, Hubei,the following were new to science: Brachionus angularis pyriformis, B. a. donghuensis, B. (Schizocerca) brevispina, Anuraeopsis fi...