Rotifer Symposium V: Proceedings of the Fifth Rotifer Symposium, held in Gargnano, Italy, September 11–18, 1988

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Rotifer study as a way of life....Pages 1-9
Food limitation and body size in the life cycles of planktonic rotifers and cladocerans....Pages 11-28
Is food availability the main factor controlling the abundance of Euchlanis dilatata lucksiana Hauer in a shallow, hypertrophic lake?....Pages 29-34
Influence of cyanobacterial diet on Asplanchna predation risk in Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 35-38
Nutritional effect of freshwater Chlorella on growth of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 39-42
Life history characteristics of Brachionus plicatilis (rotifera) fed different algae....Pages 43-50
Feeding kinetics of Brachionus plicatilis fed Isochrysis galbana ....Pages 51-57
Epizoic and parasitic rotifers....Pages 59-67
Interrelations of rotifers with predatory and herbivorous Cladocera: a review of Russian works....Pages 69-73
Competitive interactions between the rotifer Synchaeta oblonga and the cladoceran Scapholeberis kingi Sars....Pages 75-80
Salinity and temperature influence in rotifer life history characteristics....Pages 81-102
Empirical evidence for a complex diurnal movement in Hexarthra bulgarica from an oligotrophic high mountain lake (La Caldera, Spain)....Pages 103-108
Morphological variation in Kellicottia longispina ....Pages 109-117
Morphological structure and functional patterns of Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) populations in stratified lakes....Pages 119-128
The development of Hexarthra spp. in a shallow alkaline lake....Pages 129-136
On choice of substrate and habitat in brachionid rotifers....Pages 137-144
Temporal analysis of clonal structure in a moss bdelloid population....Pages 145-152
Horizontal distribution of the plankton rotifers Keratella cochlearis (Bory de St Vincent) and Polyarthra vulgaris (Carlin) in a small eutrophic lake....Pages 153-156
Oviposition behavior of the littoral rotifer Euchlanis dilatata ....Pages 157-161
Developmental times of Synchaeta oblonga eggs from the Danube (Austria)....Pages 163-165
Community structure and coexistence of the rotifers of an artificial crater lake....Pages 167-179
The rotifer communities of acid-stressed lakes of Maine....Pages 181-189
Composition and distributional patterns in arctic rotifers....Pages 191-200
Abundance and diversity of planktonic rotifers in the Po River....Pages 201-208
Rotifer distribution in relation to temperature and oxygen content....Pages 209-214
Patterns in the composition of the rotifer communities from high mountain lakes and ponds in Sierra Nevada (Spain)....Pages 215-221
Rotifer associations of some wetlands in Ontario, Canada....Pages 223-228
Opportunist rotifers: colonising species of young ponds in Surrey, England....Pages 229-234
Percentage of rotifers in spring zooplankton in lakes of different trophy....Pages 235-238
Tasmania revisited: rotifer communities and habitat heterogeneity....Pages 239-245
Occurrence of Rotifera in the field under natural and intentionally-changed conditions. II. Lake Numasawa....Pages 247-254
The skeletal muscles of rotifers and their innervation....Pages 255-278
Classical taxonomy and modern methodology....Pages 279-284
Mastax morphology under SEM and its usefulness in reconstructing rotifer phylogeny & systematics....Pages 285-289
Problems in taxonomy of rotifers, exemplified by the Filinia longiseta — terminalis complex....Pages 291-298
Systematics, reproductive isolation and species boundaries in monogonont rotifers....Pages 299-310
Phylogenetic relationships within phylum Rotifera: orders and genus Notholca ....Pages 311-318
A re-appraisal of two members of the genus Notholca from the Andes, with a note on the fine structure of the lorica of N.foliacea (Ehrenberg)....Pages 319-324
Protein patterns in rotifers: the timing of aging....Pages 325-330
 Brachionus plicatilis tolerance to low oxygen concentrations....Pages 331-337
Analysis of protein, carbohydrate and lipid in rotifers....Pages 339-346
A laboratory study of phosphorus and nitrogen excretion of Euchlanis dilatata lucksiana ....Pages 347-354
A new method to estimate individual dry weights of rotifers....Pages 355-361
Temperature aspects of ecological bioenergetics in Brachionus angularis (Rotatoria)....Pages 363-369
Biomass and elemental composition (C.H.N.) of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis cultured as larval food....Pages 371-374
Molecular genetics of rotifers: preliminary restriction mapping of the mitochondrial genome of Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 375-380
Size variation in Brachionus plicatilis resting eggs....Pages 381-386
Rotifers as food in aquaculture....Pages 387-400
Nitrogen flow through a Brachionus /Chlorella mass culture system....Pages 401-408
Kinetics of n-3 fatty acids in Brachionus plicatilis and changes in the food supply....Pages 409-413
Effect of incubation and preservation on resting egg hatching and mixis in the derived clones of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 415-421
Intensive rotifer cultures using chemostats....Pages 423-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-433