To persist in extreme environments, some meiofaunal taxa have adopted outstanding
resistance strategies. Recent years have seen increased enthusiasm for understanding …

The Class Bdelloidea of the Phylum Rotifera is the largest metazoan taxon in which males,
hermaphrodites, and meiosis are unknown. We conducted a molecular genetic test of this …

Over the past decade, the availability of DNA sequence data from rotifers and the
development of statistical and analytical tools linked to phylogenetic reconstructions allowed …

The Palaeacanthocephala is traditionally represented by 2 orders, Echinorhynchida and
Polymorphida, with 10 and 3 families, respectively. To test the monophyly of the class, these …

Rotifers comprise a modestly sized phylum (≈ 1,850 species) of tiny (ca. 50–2,000 μm),
bilaterally symmetrical, eutelic metazoans, traditionally grouped within the …

Rotifera comprise about 2,000 species (Segers 2007) of microscopic animals, usually much
less than 1 mm in length, characterized by the presence of a ciliated corona and a muscular …

In order to help elucidate confusion in the nomenclature of Rotifera (= Syndermata), an
updated checklist is provided, including corrections and additions of family-and genus-group …

Phylogenetic relationships among Syndermata have been extensively debated, mainly
because the sister-group of the Acanthocephala has not yet been clearly identified from …

For almost four decades, rotifers have been used as food organisms for cultured marine fish
larvae. A continuous, stable and reliable supply of nutritionally adequate rotifers is the key to …

The phylogeny of selected members of the phylum Rotifera is examined based on analyses
under parsimony direct optimization and Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Species of the …