Planktonic organisms exhibit diverse morphological, behavioural and life-history responses
to the chemical presence of potential predators. Prey organisms have been found to sense …

Phenotypic plasticity in defensive traits is an appropriate mechanism to cope with the
variable hazard of a frequently changing predator spectrum. In the animal kingdom these so …

Induced morphological defenses commonly develop in some loricate rotifers as greatly
increased spine development and in many species of the cladoceran genus Daphnia as an …

Phenotypic plasticity, whereby a single genotype produces alternative phenotypes in
alternative environments, is often cited as a characteristic of generalists: the alternative …

Background Predator-induced defences are a prominent example of phenotypic plasticity
found from single-celled organisms to vertebrates. The water flea Daphnia pulex is a very …

Morphological variation is sometimes used as an indicator of environmental stress in
animals. Here, we assessed how multiple morphological traits covaried in Daphnia pulex …

The water flea Daphnia are planktonic crustaceans commonly found in freshwater
environment that can switch their reproduction mode from parthenogenesis to sexual …

Daphnia sinensis is a widespread freshwater microcrustacean. The assembled D. sinensis
genome totaled 131.58 Mb with 92.23% of the assembly anchored onto 10 chromosomes …

Moina micrura is a kind of small-bodied water flea within the family Moinidae. Similar to
Daphnia, M. micrura could also switch its reproduction mode from parthenogenetic female …

By enhancing the stock of piscivorous fish in a whole-lake experiment in Gräfenhain
(Germany) since 1981 to such an extent that almost all planktivorous fish were exterminated …