2.Competition between the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus and the cladoceran moina macrocopa in relation to algal food concentration and initial rotifer population density.
3.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.
12.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.
13.Rotifers are better—or at least more interesting—because they're multicellular animals, with a head and a body, that can eat, crawl around and make more rotifers.