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Single dietary amino acids control resting egg production and affect population growth of a key freshwater herbivore.
Oecologia - 1 Dec 2011
Koch Ulrike, Martin-Creuzburg Dominik, Grossart Hans-Peter, Straile Dietmar
Abstract excerpt
The enormous success of the genus Daphnia in freshwater ecosystems is at least partially due to their cyclical parthenogenetic life cycle, in which asexual and sexual reproduction alternate periodically. This temporal change between reproductive strategies allows for (1) rapid population growth via subitaneously developing eggs when environmental conditions are appropriate and (2) the maintenance of genetic...
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