New publication: Beyond #Daphnia: a plea for a more inclusive and unifying approach to #freshwater #zooplankton ecology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05217-3

Sunday #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
Many cladoceran #zooplankton, especially from the genus #Daphnia undergo a process known as cyclomorphosis in the presence of predator kairomones. This is typified by enlarged "helmet" formation and extended spines. Presence of vertebrate predators (or even water which had fish in it) or inverts such Chaoborus (midge larvae) can generate this rather spectacular transformation. #FoodWebs

Classic paper by James Brooks on the topic. 📖
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.53.1.119

Our new study is available #OpenAccess in Freshwater Biology ! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/fwb.14068

This is Wolinska Lab's second publication on the topic of #nanoplastics and #parasitism in #Daphnia; see also Manzi, Schlösser et al. (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0013), which was published last month.

Our new paper is out in a theme issue of Phil. Trans. B ! (‘Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world’)

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0013

This was the first published study to assess the effects of #nanoplastic particles on infection parameters in the popular #Daphnia-microparasite system (featuring the yeast #Metschnikowia bicuspidata and microsporidium #Ordospora colligata).

2-Feb-2023
Decades-old crustaceans coaxed from lake mud give up genetic secrets revealing #evolution in action
Human actions are changing the environment at an unprecedented rate. Plant and animal populations must try to keep up with these human-accelerated changes, often by trying to rapidly evolve tolerance to changing conditions. researchers demonstrated rapid evolution in action by sequencing the #genomes of a population of #Daphnia pulicaria,

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/978609 #science

Decades-old #crustaceans coaxed from #lake mud give up #genetic secrets revealing #evolution in action.

#Daphnia #keystonespecies

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-decades-old-crustaceans-coaxed-lake-mud.html

Decades-old #crustaceans coaxed from #lake mud give up #genetic secrets revealing #evolution in action.

#Daphnia #keystonespecies

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-decades-old-crustaceans-coaxed-lake-mud.html

RT @JustynaW0linska
We are hiring! #PhDposition in Disease Evolutionary Ecology @LeibnizIGB: How #microplastic pollution affects host #parasite interactions. #Daphnia #microbiome #transcriptome #FindaPhD Please RT & thanks! Deadline 10.02.23 Project details and application👇 https://karriere-igb.softgarden.io/job/26654029/PhD-position-in-Disease-Evolutionary-Ecology-m-f-x-?jobDbPVId=66760088&l=de

The Linkage-Disequilibrium and Recombinational Landscape in Daphnia pulex https://buff.ly/3tJzD5C #science #evolution #biology #daphnia #recombination

We can grow algae. Right media, right lights, right temperature and presto!

This is my first post here. Stay tuned for more on #daphnia, #stoichiometry, #limnology.

We (PhD of Sarah Rousseaux, supervised by Steven Declerck and Luc de Meester) had great data measuring population variation in #Daphnia life history traits, and also surveys of the same life history traits from numerous other Cladocerans in the region.

I would like to share more widely our paper from late 2021, we measured (1) how much #Daphnia local evolution contributes to community trait structure and (2) what drives ⬆️⬇️ values of this contribution in a natural metacommunity

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/oik.07885

New study by Marcin Dziuba et al., a collaborative work between Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań and my former institute IGB-Berlin: "Can #ClimateWarming save #Daphnia from parasites?"

Read the IGB press release here: https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/sick-water-fleas-does-global-warming-promote-infections

Full paper is available in Limnology & Oceanography: https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12257

#introduction
Hi all! I'm an evolutionary biologist interested in unraveling mechanisms of adaptation and speciation using lots of #genomics and #invertebrates, including #beetles, #daphnia, and #heliconius. Stationed @KULeuven https://bio.kuleuven.be/eeb/sv/