Rotifera X : Rotifer Research: Trends, New Tools and Recent Advances /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Herzig, Alois. (Editor), Gulati, Ramesh D. (Editor), Jersabek, Christian D. (Editor), May, Linda. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edition:1st ed. 2005.
Series:Developments in Hydrobiology ; 181
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Walter Koste - a K-strategist? A laudatio
  • Walter Koste - a K-strategist? A laudatio
  • Phylogeny and Evolution
  • On the phylogenetic position of Rotifera - have we come any further?
  • Speciation and selection without sex
  • Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of rotifer-acanthocephalan relationships
  • Evolutionary dynamics of 'the' bdelloid and monogonont rotifer life-history patterns
  • Toward a better understanding of the phylogeny of the Asplanchnidae (Rotifera)
  • Genetics and Molecular Ecology
  • Molecular ecology of rotifers: from population differentiation to speciation
  • The potential of genomic approaches to rotifer ecology
  • Using amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP) to study genetic variability in several freshwater rotifer species
  • Genetics and Molecular Ecology
  • Molecular characterization of Mn-superoxide dismutase and gene expression studies in dietary restricted Brachionus plicatilis rotifers
  • Behavioural reproductive isolation in a rotifer hybrid zone
  • Taxonomy and Biogeography
  • The 'Frank J. Myers Rotifera collection' at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
  • Tale of a sleeping beauty: a new and easily cultured model organism for experimental studies on bdelloid rotifers
  • Life on the edge: rotifers from springs and ephemeral waters in the Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend National Park (Texas, USA)
  • Morphology and Ultrastructure
  • Euryhaline Brachionus strains (Rotifera) from tropical habitats: morphology and allozyme patterns
  • Morphological and morphometrical variations of selected rotifer species in response to predation: a seasonal study of selected brachionid species from Lake Xochimilco (Mexico)
  • Morphological stasis of two species belonging to the L-morphotype in the Brachionus plicatilis species complex
  • Morphological variation of Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) in a backwater of the River Thames
  • Trophi structure in bdelloid rotifers
  • Study of the trophi of Testudinella Bory de St. Vincent and Pompholyx Gosse (Rotifera: Testudinellidae) by scanning electron microscopy
  • Do rotifer jaws grow after hatching?
  • External morphology and muscle arrangement of Brachionus urceolaris, Floscularia ringens, Hexarthra mira and Notommata glyphura (Rotifera, Monogononta)
  • The musculature of Testudinella patina (Rotifera: Flosculariacea), revealed with CLSM
  • Rotifer nervous system visualized by FMRFamide and 5-HT immunocytochemistry and confocal laser scanning microscopy
  • Identification of acetylcholinesterase receptors in Rotifera
  • Mating, Resting Eggs, Diapause, Anhydrobiosis, Embryonic Development
  • Brachionus calyciflorus is a species complex: Mating behavior and genetic differentiation among four geographically isolated strains
  • Removal of surface glycoproteins and transfer among Brachionus species
  • Maternal effect by stem females in Brachionus plicatilis: effect of starvation on mixis induction in offspring
  • Restoration of tropical peat swamp rotifer communities after perturbation: an experimental study of recovery of rotifers from the resting egg bank
  • Diapause in monogonont rotifers
  • Anhydrobiosis of Adineta ricciae: costs and benefits
  • A putative LEA protein, but no trehalose, is present in anhydrobiotic bdelloid rotifers
  • The development of a bdelloid egg: a contribution after 100 years
  • Population and Community Ecology
  • Evolution of rotifer life histories
  • Insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway involved in regulating longevity of rotifers
  • Combined effects of algal (Chlorella vulgaris) food level and temperature on the demography of Brachionus havanaensis (Rotifera): a life table study
  • Factors affecting egg-ratio in planktonic rotifers
  • Factors affecting swimming speed in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis
  • An evidence for vertical migrations of small rotifers - a case of rotifer community in a dystrophic lake
  • Structure distinctions of pelagic rotifer plankton in stratified lakes with different human impact
  • Changes in rotifer species composition and abundance along a trophic gradient in Loch Lomond, Scotland, UK
  • Diversity and abundance of the planktonic rotifers in different environments of the Upper Paraná River floodplain (Paraná State - Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil)
  • Relationships between rotifers, phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the Corumbá reservoir, Goiás State, Brazil
  • Short time-response of psammic communities of Rotifera to abiotic changes in their habitat
  • The influence of biotic and abiotic factors on psammic rotifers in artificial and natural lakes
  • Long-term Studies
  • Seasonal rotifer dynamics in the long-term (1969-2002) record from Lake Kinneret (Israel)
  • Seasonality of rotifers and temperature in Lough Neagh, N. Ireland
  • Abiotic vs. biotic factors: lessons drawn from rotifers in the Middle Loire, a meandering river monitored from 1995 to 2002, during low flow periods
  • Trophic Interactions
  • Freshwater copepods and rotifers: predators and their prey
  • Trophic Interactions
  • Life history characteristics of Asplanchnopus multiceps (Rotifera) fed rotifer and cladoceran prey
  • Susceptibility of ephemeral pool Hexarthra to predation by the fairy shrimp Branchinecta mackini: can predation drive local extinction?
  • Decline of clear-water rotifer populations in a reservoir: the role of resource limitation
  • Combined effects of food concentration and temperature on competition among four species of Brachionus (Rotifera)
  • Application of stable isotope tracers to studies of zooplankton feeding, using the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus as an example
  • Aquaculture and Ecotoxicology
  • Screening methods for improving rotifer culture quality
  • Interaction among copper toxicity, temperature and salinity on the population dynamics of Brachionus rotundiformis (Rotifera)
  • Effect of some pesticides on reproduction of rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Müller
  • Heat shock protein 60 (HSP60) response of Plationus patulus (Rotifera: Monogononta) to combined exposures of arsenic and heavy metals.