Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology

What can molecular markers tell us about the evolutionary history of Daphnia species complexes?.- Genetic variation in Simocephalus (Anomopoda: Daphniidae) in North America: patterns and consequences.- Large Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium deviations in the Daphnia longispina of Lake El Tobar.- Differences in genetic structure and ecological diversity between parental forms and hybrids in a Daphnia species comple.- Effects of salinity on the life history and fitness of Daphnia magna: variability within and between populations.- Changing attitudes toward chydorid anomopods since.- Phylogeny and adaptive radiation within the Anomopoda: a preliminary exploration.- The evolution of groundwater Cladocera.- Altitudinal distribution of tropical planktonic Cladocera.- The conservation ecology of the Podonidae from the Caspian and Aral Seas.- Distribution and biology of marine cladocerans in the coastal waters of southern China.- Synergistic effects of different food species on life-history traits of Daphnia galeata.- Effects of Microcystis aeruginosa on interference competition between Daphnia pulex and Keratella cochlearis.- The influence of prey hardness on Daphnia ’s selectivity for large prey.- Egg size and egg mass of Daphnia magna: response to food availability.- Reduced digestibility of UV-B-stressed and nutrient-limited algae by Daphnia magna.- UV-B tolerance of alpine and arctic Daphnia.- An account of a preliminary mechanistic model of swimming behaviour in Daphnia: its use in understanding diel vertical migration.- Life history characteristics of Daphnia magna clones in phototactic behaviour.- Diel horizontal migration and swarm formation in Daphnia in response to Chaoborus.- Behavioural and morphological changes in polymorphic Daphnia related to different predationregimes.- Seasonal occurrence and diel locomotor activity in littoral Cladocera in a mesohumic lake in Norway.- Effects of predator-released chemicals on some life history parameters of Daphnia pulex.- The influence of a fish exudate on two clones of the hybrid Daphnia galeata × hyalina.- Changes in epibiotic burden during the intermolt of Daphnia determined by hypodermal retraction stages.- An in situ test of the effects of food quality on Daphnia population growth.- Interrelationships between crustacean Zooplankton and phytoplankton: results from 15 years of field observations at the mesotropic Saidenbach Reservoir (Germany).- Life history characteristics and distribution of Bythotrephes longimanus Leydig (Crustacea, Onychopoda) in the Biesbosch reservoirs.- Competition or niche segregation between Holopedium and Daphnia; empirical light on abiotic key parameters.- Interactions between Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and cladocerans in ponds (Khartoum, Sudan).- Leptodora kindti: efficient predator and preferred prey item in Neusiedler See, Austria.- Cyclomorphosis as a factor explaining success of a Daphnia hybrid in Tjeukemeer.- Morphological variation and population dynamics of Bosmina (E). longicornis kessleri Uljanin (Crustacea: Anomopoda: Bosminidae) in the Bukovec Reservoir (S. E. Slovakia).