Sentence examples for daphnia from inspiring English sources

This cue warns Daphnia of Notonecta's presence, giving it an opportunity to escape predation by the bugs.

For example, in the water flea genus Daphnia, chemicals from predatory fish influence vertical migration patterns that reduce predation by fish.

This occurs within the branchiopod order Anomopoda, as in Daphnia, in most isopods and amphipods, and in some decapods, including freshwater crabs and crayfish and some deep-sea and Arctic groups.

The water flea (Daphnia magna) and the brine shrimp (Artemia salina) are used as fish food in aquariums and fish ponds, and the larvae of the latter are widely used as food for the larvae of larger crustaceans reared in captivity.

Chemicals from the predatory back swimmer bug in the genus Notonecta act as a predation cue by altering the response to light of Daphnia.

There is evidence that this is so in the minute filter-feeding crustacean Daphnia magna.

With such an instrument, I caught, at the age of nine, the first Daphnia for my fishes, thereby discovering the wonder-world of the freshwater pond, which immediately drew me under its spell ….

Layered sediments in the pond contain dormant Daphnia eggs and spores of the bacterial parasite.

Now Dr. Decaestecker and colleagues have done just that, observing Red Queen dynamics between the water flea Daphnia magna and a bacterial parasite, using what amounts to a time machine in a shallow pond in the Belgian town of Heverlee.

The water flea Daphnia pulex monitors chemical traces of predators as it develops.