News articles tagged with 'rotifer'
New study documents use of hormone progesterone in simple microscopic aquatic animals
— 15 Jun 2010 03:09 | BiologyA new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex…
DNA from other species discovered in genomes of an asexual animal
— 29 May 2008 22:05 | BiologyWhere do you get your genes? If you are an animal, you inherit them from your parents at the moment of conception, and that's about it. No later incorporation of environmental DNA for…
Asexual rotifers show extreme resistance to radiation
— 3 Apr 2008 14:08 | BiologyBirds and bees may do it, but the microscopic animals called bdelloid rotifers seem to get along just fine without sex, thank you. What's more, they have done so over millions of years…
Bdelloid rotifers show extreme resistance to radiation
— 25 Mar 2008 19:55 | BiologyScientists at Harvard University have found that a common class of freshwater invertebrate animals called bdelloid rotifers are extraordinarily resistant to ionising radiation, surviving…
80 million years without sex
— 11 Oct 2007 20:56 | BiologyScientists have discovered how a microscopic organism has benefited from nearly 80 million years without sex. Bdelloid rotifers are asexual organisms, meaning that they reproduce without…
Hidden interactions between predators and prey: evolution causes cryptic dynamics in ecology
— 4 Sep 2007 10:23 | BiologyWhen the populations of two species oscillate together (for example, predators and prey), it's a good bet that they are tightly coupled ecologically. A famous example is the Canadian…
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