Bdelloidea / ˈdɛlɔɪdiə / (from Greek βδέλλα, bdella 'leech') is a class of rotifers found in freshwater habitats all over the world. There are over 450 described species of bdelloid rotifers (or …

Mar 24, 2008 · Bdelloid rotifers are one of the strangest of all animals. Uniquely, these small, freshwater invertebrates reproduce entirely asexually and have avoided sex for some 80 …

Nov 15, 2012 · These tiny aquatic creatures can survive high blasts of radiation and years of desiccation—and they've persisted for tens of millions of years without sex. Now, a study …

Mar 4, 2022 · In humans and our fellow eukaryotes, two principal epigenetic marks are known. But a team from the University of Chicago-affiliated Marine Biological Laboratory has …

Three Philodina gregaria rotifers browse in a field of clumped organic matter. They are native to the Antarctic, and apart from the unusual bright red colouring of their bodies, are …

Apr 7, 2023 · Bdelloid rotifers are micro-invertebrates distributed worldwide, from temperate latitudes to the most extreme areas of the planet like Antarctica or the Atacama Desert.

Bdelloid rotifers are the commonest variety found in fresh water. The term describes their habit of moving about by extending the body and attatching the head, then catching up with the foot …

Bdelloidea /ˈdɛlɔɪdiə/ (Greek βδελλα, bdella, 'leech-like') is a class of rotifers found in freshwater habitats all over the world. There are over 450 described species of bdelloid rotifers (or …

Jan 29, 2010 · Bdelloid rotifers are freshwater invertebrates that abandoned sexual reproduction millions of years ago. Here, we show that cultured populations of bdelloids can rid themselves …

Feb 5, 2020 · Through desiccation, bdelloid rotifers are able to replace natural selection for parasitic resistance with simply outlasting or outmaneuvering the genus Rotiferophthora. …