Biology of Rotifers: Proceedings of the Third International Rotifer Symposium held at Uppsala, Sweden, August 30 – September 4, 1982

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Rotifera or Rotatoria?....Pages 1-2
Parallelism in the evolution of rotifers....Pages 3-7
Rotifera from Western Australian wetlands with descriptions of two new species....Pages 9-17
Biogeography of rotifers....Pages 19-30
The Indian species of the genus Brachionus (Eurotatoria: Monogononta: Brachionidae)....Pages 31-39
Rotifer communities of billabongs in northern and south-eastern Australia....Pages 41-47
Rotifera from northeastern Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada....Pages 49-56
Rotifers of the Antarctic and Subantarctic....Pages 57-60
Environmental factors affecting hatching of rotifer ( Brachionus plicatilis ) resting eggs....Pages 61-69
Continuous culture of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis fed recycled algal diets....Pages 71-75
Production of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis for aquaculture in Kuwait....Pages 77-84
Cryopreservation of monogonont rotifers....Pages 85-88
Behavior and ultrastructure of sensory organs in rotifers....Pages 89-129
Some historical specimens of rotifers examined by scanning electron microscopy....Pages 131-134
A re-examination of the Lansing Effect....Pages 135-139
Aging in Brachionus plicatilis : The evolution of swimming as a function of age at two different calcium concentrations....Pages 141-146
Macromolecular synthesis during embryogenesis of Habrotrocha rosa Donner I. Replication of DNA....Pages 147-148
Cholinergic neurotransmission in rotifers....Pages 149-153
Rotifer nutrition using supplemented monoxenic cultures....Pages 155-166
Control of sexuality in Asplanchna brightwelli : threshold levels of dietary tocopherol and modification of tocopherol response by exogenous and endogenous factors....Pages 167-173
Life histories of some species of Rotifera Bdelloidea....Pages 175-180
The significance of mating processes for the genetics and for the formation of resting eggs in monogonont rotifers....Pages 181-190
Phototaxis in monochromatic light and microspectrophotometry of the cerebral eye of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 191-196
An experimental system for the automatic tracking and analysis of rotifer swimming behaviour....Pages 197-202
Sensory receptors involved in the feeding behaviour of the rotifer Asplanchna brightwelli ....Pages 203-212
Resting eggs in rotifers....Pages 213-224
On temperature acclimation in an experimental population of Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 225-227
The Rotatoria-Monogononta of the River Drava in Slovenia, Yugoslavia....Pages 229-230
Ammonia nitrogen and inorganic phosphorus excretion by the planktonic rotifers....Pages 231-236
Comparative studies on the relationship between temperature and duration of embryonic development of rotifers....Pages 237-246
Composition, dynamics and production of Rotatoria in the plankton of some lakes of the Danube Delta....Pages 247-257
Vertical distribution and rotifer concentrations in the chemocline of meromictic lakes....Pages 259-267
Changes in the relative abundance of Polyarthra vulgaris and P. dolichoptera , following the elimination of fish....Pages 269-273
Seasonal abundance of psammon rotifers....Pages 275-278
Biometric analysis of Brachionus plicatilis ecotypes from Spanish lagoons....Pages 279-291
Comparative analysis of plankton rotifer biomass in large Estonian lakes....Pages 293-296
Morphological variation of Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) in Lake Biwa, Japan....Pages 297-305
Notes on the rotifers of coal mine water in Eastern Poland....Pages 307-309
Rotifer occurrence in relation to water temperature in Loch Leven, Scotland....Pages 311-315
Substrate selection and larval settlement by Cupelopagis vorax ....Pages 317-323
Changes in growth and size of Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) in relation to some environmental factors in cultures....Pages 325-328
Production of planktonic Rotatoria in Ormajärvi, an eutrophicated lake in southern Finland....Pages 329-333
Annual dynamics and production of rotifers in an eutrophication gradient in the Baltic Sea....Pages 335-340
Occurrence of Rotifera in the field under natural and intentionally-changed conditions....Pages 341-347
Abundance, dynamics and succession of planktonic rotifers in Lake Biel, Switzerland....Pages 349-352
Community structure of planktonic rotifers in a mesotrophic lake....Pages 353-356
Rotifers as indicators of lake types in Estonia....Pages 357-361
Interactions between Asplanchna and Keratella cochlearis in the Plußsee (north Germany)....Pages 363-365
Empty loricas and the dynamics of Kellicottia longispina in a subalpine, oligotrophic lake....Pages 367-372
Utilization of cyanobacteria by Brachionus calyciflorus: Anabaena flos-aquae (NRC-44-1) as a sole or complementary food source....Pages 373-377
Clearance rates of sessile rotifers: In situ determinations....Pages 379-383
Invertebrate predation on planktonic rotifers....Pages 385-396