Rotifers are multicellular, microscopic marine animals that live in soils and freshwater environments. They are transparent and can be easily grown in large numbers. As such, they have been used in ...

Bdelloid rotifers are tiny freshwater creatures that are smaller than the width of a human hair, but still have a head, mouth, gut, and other structures. New research has shown that these little ...

Much about tiny, swimming rotifers makes them ideal study subjects. Although barely visible to the naked eye, these transparent animals and their innards are readily viewed under a microscope. What’s ...

Rotifers, tiny freshwater and marine invertebrates, have long provided an excellent model for exploring the mechanisms of inducible defences – a form of phenotypic plasticity whereby organisms alter ...