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 ...

The Daphnia atlas project was conceived by physician-scientist Dr. Keith Cheng, distinguished professor of pathology, biochemistry and molecular biology and pharmacology at the College of Medicine.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Daphnia fascinate her because their voracious appetites for algae, yeasts and bacteria keep freshwater clean — in ponds, puddles and the aforementioned lakes — on every continent but Antarctica.

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 ...

In Daphnia, bisexual reproduction and resting-egg formation is supposed to be induced by changing environmental conditions 1,2 (that is, a phenotypic response) so individuals can alternate between ...

The Daphnia Histology Reference Atlas (DaHRA) is a new open-access resource that provides detailed images of Daphnia, a key species for environmental research due to its sensitivity to pollution.