Bdelloid rotifers
Allele Sharing and Evidence for Sexuality in a Mitochondrial Clade of Bdelloid Rotifers
... monogonont rotifers from different clades often do not (Suatoni et ...of bdelloid rotifers (Birky et ...such bdelloid clades, there is wide geographic dispersion within clades, consistent with ...
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Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats
... A recently discovered exception to the relatively low rate of HGT in multicellular eukaryotes was found in bdelloid rotifers. Bdelloids are microscopic, aquatic animals that have experienced extensive HGT. ...
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Biochemical Diversification through Foreign Gene Expression in Bdelloid Rotifers
... Bdelloid rotifers are microinvertebrates with unique characteristics: they have survived tens of millions of years without sexual reproduction; they withstand extreme desiccation by undergoing ...
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Multiple functionally divergent and conserved copies of alpha tubulin in bdelloid rotifers
... that bdelloid rotifers are tetraploid and inher- ited alpha tubulin copies from a diploid common ances- tor with monogononts, we expected bdelloids to have twice as many copies of alpha tubulin as diploid ...
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Foreign genes and novel hydrophilic protein genes participate in the desiccation response of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta ricciae
... in bdelloid rotifers, as the anhydrobiology of these aquatic micro-invertebrates has unusual aspects: besides their lack of non-reducing disaccharides, the bdelloid LEA proteins defined to date are ...
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How does the ‘ancient’ asexual Philodina roseola (Rotifera: Bdelloidea) handle potential UVB induced mutations?
... In addition, our findings are consistent with the ‘sleeping beauty’ hypothesis for bdelloid rotifers (Ricci et al., 2007), which states that individuals of these species regularly need to undergo ...
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A subtelomeric non-LTR retrotransposon Hebe in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga is subject to inactivation by deletions but not 5' truncations
... Bdelloid rotifers are small freshwater invertebrates with the ability to reproduce entirely asexually and to undergo cycles of desiccation and rehydration at any stage of their life ...of bdelloid ...
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Trafficking of bdelloid rotifer late embryogenesis abundant proteins
... set in bdelloid rotifers (Pouchkina-Stantcheva et al., 2007). However, our results in this paper show that these proteins are also found in hydrated animals. These results might imply that the presence of ...
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Multitasking of the piRNA Silencing Machinery: Targeting Transposable Elements and Foreign Genes in the Bdelloid Rotifer Adineta vaga
... Bdelloid rotifers represent a particularly interesting system for investigating RNA-mediated silencing phenomena. Our ear- lier work demonstrated that the genome of the sequenced laboratory strain of the ...
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Four New Rotifera Species of Turkish Fauna
... on bdelloid rotifers because there was only one detailed study done in Turkey up to ...now. Bdelloid rotifers live in many kinds of aquatic and terrestrial habitats such as mosses, soil, and ...
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Long-distance passive dispersal in microscopic aquatic animals
... asexual bdelloid rotifers use to survive their arm-race against fungal parasites in a hide-and-seek continuous move- ment to new lichen patches temporarily without para- sites ...
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DIVERSITY AND SEASONAL OCCURRENCE OF PLANKTONIC ROTIFERS IN KEENJHAR LAKE DISTRICT THATTA SINDH PAKISTAN
... Rotifers are considered opportunists due to their highest intrinsic rate of natural increase among the major zooplankton group (Allan, 1976). These organisms respond more quickly to environmental changes in water ...
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Seriola lalandi Larviculture with Probiotic Supplements in Mesocosm Systems
... The rotifers used were Brachionus rotundiformis and Brachionus ...and rotifers were obtained from the collection of the Unit of Applied Microbiology of ...
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... monogonont rotifers in Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, India, a number of rotifers in the latter (67 species) were close to the observed species richness in the present study; particularly, rotifer species ...
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Influence of the Quality of Maintenance of Fish Ponds on the Biomass of Zooplankton in situ in Tropical Zone (Yaoundé-Cameroon-Central Africa)
... A total of 22514 individuals were counted during all the breeding cycle with an average representativeness of 65% for the experimental pond (ET), 16% for pond E2, 11% for pond E1 and only 8% for pond E3 (figure 5A). With ...
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... A similar trend of non-uniform coverage of all the states of northeastern India, too, is evident. Most of the zooplankton studies in the region have been confined to select states. About two-thirds (~280 species) of the ...
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A Study on Zooplankton Diversity of Bhandam Cheruvu, Warangal, T.S. India
... Rotifers are regarded as Bioindicators of water quality. Rotifers play a vital role in the trophic tiers of freshwater impoundments and serve as living capsule of nutrition (Suresh Kumar et ...Planktonic ...
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Effects of Artemia metanauplii substitution by micro-pellet diet on the larval rearing of meagre, Argyrosomus regius
... of rotifers, is possible by introducing the nauplii of Artemia as the first food from 6 dph, and they showed too, that the absence of rotifers in the larval food chain will simplify the larval rearing ...
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Diversity and Parameter of Lentic Ecosystem With reference to Eutrophication
... indirectly. Rotifers were found to contribute to the zooplankton richness and plays a key role in the tropho-dynamics, ecological energetic, cycling of material and aquaculture productivity due to incredibly high ...
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Retrozymes are a unique family of non autonomous retrotransposons with hammerhead ribozymes that propagate in plants through circular RNAs
... Additional file 11: Minimum free energy secondary structure prediction of putative retrozyme RNAs of metazoan genomes from different phyla, like A: rotifers, B: corals, C: arthropods, D:[r] ...
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