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Rotifera Summary
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The 1,500 to 2,000 species in the phylum Rotifera, like other members of the kingdom Animalia, are multicellular, heterotrophic (dependent on other organisms for nutrients), and lack cell walls. But rotifers possess a unique combination of traits that...
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Rotifer : Environmental Science and Engineering
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The simplest of all multicellular animals, its name comes from the rotating motion of the two sets of cilia on the head. Rotifers are strict aerobes and found only in waters with low organic content. These animals are considered indicator organisms for...
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Rotifer Information
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The rotifers make up a phylum of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals. They were first described by John Harris in 1696 (Hudson and Gosse, 1886). Leeuwenhoek is mistakenly given credit for being the first to describe rotifers but...


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The American Biology Teacher
From Observation to Theory with Resurrected Rotifers
03/01/2008: 3,929 words, approx. 13 pages
I took some of this dry sediment, which I had taken out of the leaden gutter and had stood almost two days in my study, and put a little of it into two separate glass tubes, wherein I poured some rain water which had...
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Ecology
Life-history responses to variable environments: starvation and reproduction in planktonic rotifers.
03/01/1997: 5,079 words, approx. 17 pages
Zooplankton live in environments where resource abundance and quality can vary drastically over time. Success in nonequilibrium environments depends in part on the ability to store energy and control its allocation during periods of extreme food limitation or outright starvation. Starvation resistance is one...
 


 

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