Rotifer Symposium VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Rotifer Symposium, held in Banyoles, Spain, June 3–8, 1991

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Biochemical studies on Brachionus plicatilis : hydrolytic enzymes, integument proteins and composition of trophi....Pages 1-12
Dependence of temperature on loss rates of rotifers, lipids, and ω 3 fatty acids in starved Brachionus plicatilis cultures....Pages 13-20
Ecotoxicological studies with the freshwater rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 21-32
Ecotoxicological studies with the freshwater rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 33-40
Chronic toxicity of methylparathion to the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus fed on Nannochloris oculata and Chlorella pyrenoidosa ....Pages 41-49
Comparative laboratory studies of narcosis in Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 51-56
Polar resin embedding for Macrotrachela quadricornifera ....Pages 57-58
Rotifers in aging research: use of rotifers to test various theories of aging....Pages 59-70
Presence of anisotropic (birefringent) crystalline structures in embryonic and juvenile monogonont rotifers....Pages 71-76
Changes in size, biomass and production of Euchlanis dilatata lucksiana Hauer during its lifespan....Pages 77-80
Influence of rapid changes in salinity and temperature on the mobility of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 81-86
Influence of the concentration of oxygen on the swimming path of Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera)....Pages 87-93
Foraging behaviour of Brachionus calyciflorus (Pallas): variations in the swimming path according to presence or absence of algal food ( Chlorella )....Pages 95-100
How females of the rotifer Asplanchna brightwelli swim in darkness and light: an automated tracking study....Pages 101-108
Sexual communication in copepods and rotifers....Pages 109-116
Mixis strategies and resting eeg production of rotifers living in temporally-varying habitats....Pages 117-126
A model evaluating the contribution of environmental factors to the production of resting eggs in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 127-138
Asexual and sexual reproduction in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis cultured at different salinities....Pages 139-143
Relationships between mixis in Brachionus plicatilis and preconditioning of culture medium by crowding....Pages 145-152
The fecundity patterns of S and L type rotifers of Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 153-157
Factors influencing the biomass of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis in culture....Pages 159-164
Model simulations of continuous rotifer cultures....Pages 165-170
Rotifer population dynamics in response to increased bacterial biomass and nutrients: a mesocosm experiment....Pages 171-175
Culture of rotifers with reference to some physico-chemical properties of water in nursery pond....Pages 177-184
Characterization of the bacterial flora of mass cultivated Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 185-191
Rotifer genetics: integration of classic and modern techniques....Pages 193-204
Random genetic drift during cyclical ameiotic parthenogenesis....Pages 205-212
Chromosomes and isozymes of hypotriploid strains of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 213-217
Analysis of rotifer ribosomal gene structure using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)....Pages 219-224
Oogenesis in Macrotrachela quadricornifera (Rotifera, Bdelloidea)....Pages 225-230
Rotifers as predators on components of the microbial web (bacteria, heterotrophic flagellates, ciliates) — a review....Pages 231-246
Rotifers as predators on small ciliates....Pages 247-253
Clearance rates of bacteria by the rotifer Filinia longiseta (Ehrb.) measured using three tracers....Pages 255-260
Particle size dependent feeding by the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 261-267
Feeding in Euchlanis dilatata lucksiana Hauer on filamentous cyanobacteria and a prochlorophyte....Pages 269-274
Feeding responses of Asplanchna brightwelli (rotifera): laboratory and field studies....Pages 275-282
Effectiveness of the caudal spine as a defense mechanism in Keratella cochlearis ....Pages 283-287
The effect of fish on planktonic rotifers....Pages 289-296
Long-term changes in the rotifer fauna after biomanipulation in Haussee (Feldberg, Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) and its relationship to the crustacean and phytoplankton communities....Pages 297-304
The ecology of Synchaeta kitina Rousselet in Loch Leven, Scotland....Pages 305-315
Reproductive investment of several rotifer species....Pages 317-324
Effect of the epizoic rotifer Brachionus rubens on the population growth of three cladoceran species....Pages 325-332
On choice of substrate and habitat in bdelzoid rotifers....Pages 333-338
A quantitative method to extract moss-dwelling rotifers....Pages 339-341
Bdelloid rotifers in aerophytic mosses: influence of habitat structure and habitat age on species composition....Pages 343-344
Diversity and dominance in planktonic rotifers....Pages 345-352
Abundance, succession and morphological variation of planktonic rotifers during autumnal circulation in a hypertrophic lake (Heiligensee, Berlin)....Pages 353-360
Responses of billabong rotifer communities to inundation....Pages 361-369
Rotifer vertical distributions in a meromictic basin of Lake Banyoles (Spain)....Pages 371-380
Vertical distribution of planktonic rotifers in a karstic meromictic lake....Pages 381-388
The rotifers of Lake Peipus....Pages 389-396
Rotifer communities from some Araucanian lakes of southern Chile....Pages 397-409
The use of rotifer communities to provide a preliminary national classification of small water bodies in England....Pages 411-419
Rotifer assemblages: a contribution to the typology of Spanish reservoirs....Pages 421-428
Rotifers in ephemeral ponds of Doñana National Park....Pages 429-434
Distribution of rotifers in a Floridian saltwater beach, with a note on rotifer dispersal....Pages 435-439
Taxonomic problems with the species Keratella hiemalis ....Pages 441-443
 Cephalodella edax . sp. nov. A rotifer parasitic in the motile colonial alga Uroglena volvox Ehrenberg....Pages 445-448
Rotifers of the genus Proales from saline springs in the Namib desert, with the description of a new species....Pages 449-454
Trans-Tasman variation in Australasian Filinia populations....Pages 455-462
Contribution to the rotifer fauna of subarctic Greenland (Kangerlussuaq and Ammassalik area)....Pages 463-466
Contribution to the knowledge of the rotifera of Mexico....Pages 467-474
Zoogeography of Pacific Ocean islands: a comparison of the rotifer faunas of Easter Island and the Galápagos archipelago....Pages 475-480
New records of rotifers from the South Island lakes, New Zealand....Pages 481-490
Phylogeny of the phylum Rotifera: a workshop....Pages 491-493
Old and new data on Seisonidea (Rotifera)....Pages 495-511
SEM observations on Seison and phylogenetic relationships of the Seisonidea (Rotifera)....Pages 513-520
Phylogenetic relationships of Rotifera to other veriform taxa....Pages 521-526
The phylogeny of rotifers: molecular, ultrastructural and behavioural data....Pages 527-544
Principal directions of the evolution of Monimotrochida....Pages 545-549
Hierarchal gene trees and molecular phylogeny of the Rotifera: use of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to dissect ecological and evolutionary patterns....Pages 551-555
A short history of western European rotifer research....Pages 557-572