Imagine a creature that can grow its own spear and helmet when threatened by an attacker. It sounds like fiction, but it's true. And now, researchers have sequenced the 200 million letters of DNA that ...

Flourishing in spectacular numbers in lakes and ponds around the world, tiny creatures known as Daphnia play an essential role in freshwater ecology. Daphnia, a type of planktonic crustacean, are the ...

Daphnia, also known as the water flea, is a small freshwater crustacean known for its sensitivity to pollution. To date, the ...

A unique web-based resource of Daphnia, a sentinel species for environmental pollution, commonly used to help us detect and understand the potential toxic effects of chemicals in the environment, has ...

Terrestrial carbon resources are generally regarded as inferior-quality food for zooplankton due to a lack of essential biomolecules (e.g., polyunsaturated fatty acids). However, recent stable ...