#rotifers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rotifers, aggregated by home.social.
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18-JUL-2024
Small animals acquire genes from #bacteria that can produce #antibioticshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051402 #science #rotifers #HorizontalGeneTransfer
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#Zooplankton in #ocean and freshwater are rapidly escalating the global environmental threat of #plastics, finds study
#rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in fresh and ocean water around world, are able to chew apart #microplastics, breaking them down into even smaller, and potentially more dangerous, #nanoplastics—particles smaller than one micron. Each #rotifer can create between 348,000–366,000 per day, leading to uncountable swarms of nanoparticles. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-zooplankton-ocean-freshwater-rapidly-escalating.html -
#Rotifers have been studied for >100 years re #microevolution, #EcologicalDynamics & #ecotoxicology. This study presents a #CRISPR-based method for KO mutation of 1 or 2 alleles, and KI mutations, in rotifers with high efficiency @MBLscience #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Kb8CAC
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CW: Freshwater data 🐟🦐
The Journal of #Limnology published a special issue on georeferenced #freshwater #biodiversity data. The first three #datapapers are now available— about #rotifers and #diatoms in Italy 🇮🇹 and #zooplankton, #macroinvertebrates and #fish in Uganda 🇺🇬. More papers to come!
The special issue results from a collaboration between GBIF and the Journal of Limnology aimed at filling gaps in primary biodiversity data on freshwater species.