Sentence examples for water flea from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Cladocera, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
The newest threat is the spiny water flea, Bythotrephes cederstroemi, which clogs anglers' fishing lines.
For example, in the water flea genus Daphnia, chemicals from predatory fish influence vertical migration patterns that reduce predation by fish.
The report stated the wastewater discharge is potentially impairing the reproduction of sensitive invertebrate and algal species, including a species of water flea and freshwater green algae.
The water flea Daphnia pulex monitors chemical traces of predators as it develops.
The fresh water flea D. magna, a planktonic crustacean, is a model organism commonly used in aquatic ecotoxicology studies.
Rosenkranz et al. [[52]] demonstrate that the water flea Daphnia magna rapidly ingests MP under laboratory conditions.
The third product required a 22-fold dilution for inhibition of water flea reproduction to drop below 20%.
Subsequently, the toxicity of the vitrifying solutions at 0 °C towards asexual eggs of the water flea was tested.
Diving into a lake next summer you could swallow hundreds of Daphnia pulex, a one-eyed, algae-sucking water flea.
The fresh water flea C. dubia was exposed to MWCNT re-suspended in the presence of NOM in a 7d reproduction study [52].
PFOS was shown to be more toxic than PFOA in studies of fresh water organisms such as water flea, water snails, shrimp, and planaria.
