Cladocera: the Biology of Model Organisms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Taxonomy, Systematics and Biogeography

   1. On the history of studies on cladoceran taxonomy and morphology, with emphasis on early work and causes of insufficient knowledge of the diversity of the group

      • N. M. Korovchinsky

      Pages 1-11

   2. Subgeneric differences in head shield and ephippia ultrastructure within the genus Bosmina Baird (Crustacea, Cladocera)

      • Vladimír Kořínek, Veronika Sacherová, Ladislav Havel

      Pages 13-23

   3. Structure of thoracic limbs in Bosminopsis deitersi Richard, 1895 (Anomopoda, Branchiopoda)

      • Alexey A. Kotov

      Pages 25-32

   4. Sensory and glandular equipment of the trunk limbs of the Chydoridae and Macrothricidae (Crustacea: Anomopoda)

      • Henri J. Dumont, Marcelo Silva-Briano

      Pages 33-46

   5. Alona stochi n.sp. — the third cave-dwelling cladoceran (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the Dinaric region

      • Anton Brancelj

      Pages 47-54

   6. Moina ephemeralis n.sp. from Central Europe

      • Igor Hudec

      Pages 55-61

   7. A checklist of the littoral cladocerans from Mexico, with descriptions of five taxa recently recorded from the Neovolcanic Province

      • Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Jorge Ciros-Pérez, Martha Gutiérrez-Aguirre, Adrián Cervantes-Martínez

      Pages 63-73

   8. The Cladocera of the Godthåbfjord area, SW Greenland

      • Ulrik Røen

      Pages 75-78

3. Life History and Ecological Genetics

   1. Offspring size in Daphnia: does it pay to be overweight?

      • Maarten Boersma

      Pages 79-88

   2. Phenotypic plasticity of Daphnia life history traits in response to predator kairomones: genetic variability and evolutionary potential

      • Anke Weber, Steven Declerck

      Pages 89-99

   3. Life tables of Moina macrocopa (Straus) in successive generations under food and temperature adaptation

      • Eugeny S. Burak

      Pages 101-108

   4. Preliminary experiments on resource competition between a migrating and a non-migrating clone of the hybrid D. galeata × hyalina

      • Tineke Reede

      Pages 109-115

   5. Electron transport system (ETS) activity and respiration rate in five Daphnia species at different temperatures

      • Tatjana Simčič, Anton Brancelj

      Pages 117-125

   6. Hybridization in the Daphnia galeata complex: are hybrids locally produced?

      • Piet Spaak

      Pages 127-133

   7. Among-populational genetic differentiation in the cyclical parthenogen Daphnia magna (Crustacea, Anomopoda) and its relation to geographic distance and clonal diversity

      • J. Vanoverbeke, L. De Meester

      Pages 135-142

4. Behaviour

   1. Ideal free distribution in Daphnia? Are daphnids able to consider both the food patch quality and the position of competitors?

      • Petter Larsson

      Pages 143-152

   2. Mating behaviour in Moina brachiata (Jurine, 1820) (Crustacea, Anomopoda)

      • László Forró

      Pages 153-159

   3. Light-induced swimming of Daphnia: can laboratory experiments predict diel vertical migration?

      • Erik van Gool

      Pages 161-167

   4. The change in phototactic behaviour of a Daphnia magna clone in the presence of fish kairomones: the effect of exposure time

      • L. De Meester, C. Cousyn

      Pages 169-175

Cladocerans are increasingly used in many fields of science and this volume covers a wide range of such topics. Cladocerans have a strong influence on freshwater ecosystems and in some aspects they can be used in biomanipulation projects.
Their fast and easy asexual reproduction offers a wide range of possibilities for studies in many fields of research: genetics, ecology, ecotoxicology, etc. In some ways they are the Drosophila of the present day. Their global distribution makes them of special interest from a phylogenetic and biogeographic as well as an ecological point of view.
Apart from the proceedings of previous symposia, there are no other books which cover the whole range of aspects. These proceedings update the last symposia as well as including completely new information on certain fields of research.
Target groups are research scientists within ecology, systematic biology, evolutionary biology and population biology. The book could also be a useful source of information for special courses for students of the above mentioned topics.

• biogeography
• biology
• ecology
• ecosystem
• evolution
• evolutionary biology
• genetics
• Biological Microscopy

`... I feel that the volume is to be recommended to students and researchers and university librearies mainly due to the diversity of topics presented.'
International Review of Hydrobiology, 84 (1999)

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