The genes of ants held center stage in the world of science a week ago, and now it's the genes of water fleas, those tiny shrimp-like critters whose living bodies have long served as sentinels to ...

Facing the Green Threat: A Water Flea’s Defenses against a Carnivorous Plant. International Journal of Molecular Sciences , 2022; 23 (12): 6474 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23126474 Cite This Page : ...

Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt have discovered that they ...

The spiny flea, USGS states on its website, "has caused major changes in the zooplankton community structure." Damage done? The water flea, distinguished by its barbed tail, has plied the Great ...

The tiny freshwater flea Daphnia pulex has nearly 31,000 genes, compared to our 23,000. The finding is part of a larger report published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science by members of ...

When the water flea senses predators in its environment, it suits up, growing tail spines, a pointy helmet and other armor. Now, researchers have sequenced the genome of the water flea, providing ...

The fishhook water flea bears that name for two reasons: It’s a mere speck of a thing, as small as a flea; and it has a long, hooked tail, five to seven times the length of its body, ...

The tiny water flea (Daphnia pulex) has one up on you: it's got more genes. At least 30,907 genes, say scientists who just completed sequencing the crustacean's genome . Humans have only about 23,000.

Amidst all the talk you may have been hearing about aquatic hitchhikers such as the Asian clam and hydrilla, the water flea may have come up a time or two ...

Water fleas - or Daphnia - ensure their survival by reacting to a signal substance of their predators (fish) with flight. The zoologist Meike Anika Hahn from Professor Dr Eric von Elert's research ...

An invasive species has been found in New Hampshire waters. According to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, biologists have found a new aquatic flea in Lake Winnipesaukee.

By Mark Brown, Wired UK This tiny, near-microscopic water flea has more genes than you. In fact, this freshwater zooplankton is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced, and its 31,000 ...