The importance of the cladoceran Daphnia as a model organism for ecotoxicity testing has
been well-established since the 1980s. Daphnia have been increasingly used in …

The aquatic ecosystem is the final destination of most industrial residues and agrochemicals
resulting in organisms being exposed to a complex mixture of contaminants. Nanomaterials …

Epigenetic mechanisms have been found to play important roles in environmental stress
response and regulation. These can, theoretically, be transmitted to future unexposed …

We lack a thorough understanding of the origin and maintenance of standing genetic
variation that enables rapid evolutionary responses of natural populations. Whole genome …

Abstract Properties that make organisms ideal laboratory models in developmental and
medical research are often the ones that also make them less representative of wild …

Traditional approaches for monitoring aquatic pollution primarily rely on chemical analysis
and the detection of pollutants in the aqueous environments. However, these methods lack …

Our aim was to investigate epigenetic changes in Daphnia magna after a 25-day chronic
external γ irradiation (generation F0 exposed to 6.5 μGy· h–1 or 41.3 mGy· h–1) and their …

Background Research around the weedkiller Roundup is among the most contentious of the
twenty-first century. Scientists have provided inconclusive evidence that the weedkiller …

Negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) is an evolutionary mechanism suggested
to govern host-parasite coevolution and the maintenance of genetic diversity at host …

DNA methylation is an evolutionary ancient epigenetic modification that is phylogenetically
widespread. Comparative studies of the methylome across a diverse range of non …