The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Texas at El Paso and Ripon College in Wisconsin a four-year grant worth more than $1.5 ...

A collaborative research team has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew apart microplastics, ...

A microscopic animal has come back to life and successfully reproduced after being frozen for 24,000 years, according to a study published by Russian scientists on Monday. Bdelloid rotifers, are known ...

Photomicrograph of rotifer. Rapidly rotating cilia at top of head, internal organs visible. Live specimen. Wet mount, 40X objective, transmitted brightfield illumination. Rotifers, also known as wheel ...

Rotifers have been the big wheels of the microscopic world for more than 300 years, so it's fitting that a rotifer's wheel-like head gets its turn in the photographic spotlight. An extreme close-up of ...

While genes encode for proteins, gene expression has to happen at the right time and place, and there are many things that can influence gene activity, such as small changes in the genome, or genes ...

We tested the hypothesis that rotifer species in the micro- and mesozooplankton are a potential food source for zebra mussels. We labeled phytoplankton with 14 C, fed them to two species of rotifers ...

Nutrient content of plants is low relative to that of herbivores. Dietary nutrients can limit the growth and reproduction of herbivores. We studied life history consequences and starvation resistance ...

THE WORLD’S fisheries are overexploited. One way to relieve pressure on them is to increase the yield of fish farms. And one way to do that is to improve the quality of the food fed to the livestock ...