A unique web-based resource of Daphnia, a sentinel species for environmental pollution, commonly used to help us detect and ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that come from plastic bottles, packaging, and clothing fibers. PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) are a group of chemicals used in everyday items ...

In fact Daphnia have an astonishingly large number of genes. "We count more than 31,000 genes," says Colbourne. By comparison, the human genome has more like 23,000 genes. If Guinness tracks such ...

Shampoo chemicals called polyquaterniums stick to tiny aquatic animals. They slow swimming and feeding, risking ecosystems ...

Complexity ever in the eye of its beholders, the animal with the most genes -- about 31,000 -- is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans ...

It turns out that Daphnia pulex has a tiny genome containing only 200 million base pairs (compared to 3 billion in humans), yet has a whopping 31,907 genes within it (that’s more than humans, who have ...

Daphnia is native to Lake Tahoe and makes up an important part of the lake's food web. In recent years, the Daphnia population dwindled as its main predator, the mysis shrimp, dominated.

A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic ...

The recently updated genome sequence of the Daphnia pulex can shed more light on how it adapts to stress, environmental toxins, and warming temperatures. A series of rodent experiments showed that ...

A daphnia egg remains attached to the hairs on a backswimmer's abdomen Organisms that seem to appear out of nowhere have taxed some of the finest minds in history. Aristotle, for example, was ...