Non-indigenous species may pose a threat to native ecosystems worldwide. In aquatic
environments, invasives may have a negative impact on human food security and …

Abstract The genus Daphnia OF Müller, 1785 (Anomopoda, Cladocera) has become a
model genus for ecological, toxicological, and evolutionary studies. At the same time …

Freshwater invertebrate conservation faces 5 important challenges. First, ̃10, 000 species of
freshwater invertebrates around the world may already be extinct or imperiled. Second …

Molecular studies have enlightened our understanding of freshwater zooplankton
biogeography, yet questions remain regarding the scale and commonality of geographic …

Waterfowl often have been assumed to disperse freshwater aquatic organisms between
isolated wetlands, but no one has analyzed the impact of this transport on the population …

DNA barcoding, based on sequence diversity in the mitochondrial COI gene, has proven an
excellent tool for identifying species in many animal groups. Here, we report the first barcode …

There has been a recent appreciation of the ecological impacts of zooplanktonic species
invasions. The North American brine shrimp Artemia franciscana is one such alien invader …

A major question in our understanding of eukaryotic biodiversity is whether small bodied
taxa have cosmopolitan distributions or consist of geographically localized cryptic taxa …

The phylogeographical structure of the water flea Daphnia magna in Europe was analysed
using a 609‐bp fragment of the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene. Only moderate overall …

Although the temperate regions of South America are known to have a diverse daphniid
fauna, there has been no genetic evaluation of the existing taxonomic system or of the …