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 ...

Fleas are only a few millimeters in size. But they do have a whole arsenal of defenses -- even against aggressive plants. Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität ...

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 ...

Hosts and their parasites are in constant competition. Through genetic diversity, the host can change in such a way that ...

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 ...

A water flea about the size of the equal sign on a keyboard has more genes than any other creature analyzed so far, say scientists who suggest its sophisticated genome could one day double as a ...

A little flea is causing big problems in the Great Lakes region, and once again, humans brought this invasive animal here.

Hells Angels have nothing on some water fleas. While these tiny crustaceans are best known for their uncanny ability to skim atop the water's surface, some also boast a "helmet" that makes them ...

A microscopic, see-through water flea is the most complex creature ever studied, genomically speaking. Daphnia pulex is the first crustacean to ever have its genome sequenced, and it turns out it ...

The spiny water flea was introduced in the 1980s and migrated into smaller lakes, eating algae-eating Daphnia and disrupting lake ecosystems ...