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Daphnia are tiny crustaceans, and zebrafish are a small freshwater species that go from a cell to a swimming fish in about five days.
From Science Daily • May 10, 2024
Scientists expect the populations of those zooplankton, specifically Daphnia and Bosmina, to continue growing in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
For the estuary ecosystem, the scientists studied Inland Silverside and mysid shrimp, while in the freshwater ecosystem the scientists studied embryonic zebrafish and the crustacean Daphnia magna.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2022
The data represented periods before, during and after a time when the lake was affected by blooms of cyanobacteria, a microbe with low nutritional value for Daphnia.
From Nature • Jan. 30, 2018
Of Crustaceae: near the sea-shore a Pagurus existed in astonishing numbers, and in the sweet waters a Daphnia.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
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