Competition between the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus and the cladoceran moina macrocopa in relation to algal food concentration and initial rotifer population density.
Take a lineage of microscopic marine animals known as bdelloid rotifers.Most rotifers reproduce sexually, but bdelloid rotifers abandoned sex about 100 million years ago.
Above the size of L rotifers, however, farmers switch phylum and feed their charges crustaceans called brine shrimps, the smallest of which clock in at 400 microns.
They can be found all over the world, but you could have all the bdelloid rotifer experts in the world to dinner and not have to borrow plates from the neighbors.