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Review paper Dormancy patterns in rotifers.- Recipes for successful anhydrobiosis in bdelloid rotifers.- Spine development in Brachionus quadridentatus from an Australian billabong: genetic variation and induction by Asplanchna.- The relationship between Trichocerca pusilla (Jennings), Aulacoseira spp. and water temperature in Loch Leven, Scotland, U.K..- Swimming speed and Reynolds numbers of eleven freshwater rotifer species.- Density-dependent regulation of natural and laboratory rotifer populations.- Variability for mixis initiation in Brachionus plicatilis.- Parasites in rotifers from the Volga delta.- Use of microparticulate markers in examination of rotifer physiology: results and prospects.- Population growth of Lepadella patella (O.F. Müller, 1786) at different algal (Chlorella vulgaris) densities and in association with Philodina roseola Ehrenberg, 1832.- Egg size and offspring fitness in a bdelloid rotifer.- Life table demography and population growth of Brachionus variabilis Hempel, 1896 in relation to Chlorella vulgaris densities.- Life cycle patterns of rotifers in Lake Peipsi.- Life history characteristics of three types of females in Brachionus calyciflorus Pallas (Rotifera) fed different algae.- Why do rotifer populations present a typical sigmoid growth curve?.- Grazing by a dominant rotifer Conochilus unicornis Rousselet in a mountain lake: in situ measurements with synthetic microspheres.- Observations of insect predation on rotifers.- The effect of bacteria on interspecific relationships between the euryhaline rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis and the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus japonicus.- Bed and Breakfast: the parasitic life of Proales werneckii (Ploimida: Proalidae) within the alga Vaucheria (Xanthophyceae: Vaucheriales).- Review paper Theecology of periphytic rotifers.- The psammic rotifer structure in three Lobelian Polish lakes differing in pH.- Distribution of rotifers in North Island, New Zealand, and their potential use as bioindicators of lake trophic state.- Urban rotifers: structure and densities of rotifer communities in water bodies of the Pozna? agglomeration area (western Poland).- Rotifer distributions in the coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean.- Species diversity and dominance in the planktonic rotifer community of the Pripyat River in the Chernobyl region (1988–1996).- Variability and instability of planktonic rotifer associations in Lesotho, southern Africa.- Diurnal vertical distribution of rotifers (Rotifera) in the Chara zone of Budzy?skie Lake, Poland.- Hatching from the sediment egg-bank, or aerial dispersing? — the use of mesocosms in assessing rotifer biodiversity.- Increase of rotifer diversity after sewage diversion in the hypertrophic lagoon, Albufera of Valencia, Spain.- Ecological structure of psammic rotifers in the ecotonal zone of Lake Piaseczno (eastern Poland).- Lake characteristics influence recovery of microplankton in arctic LTER lakes following experimental fertilization.- Review paper Zoogeography of the Southeast Asian Rotifera.- Rotifera from Burundi: the Lepadellidae (Rotifera: Monogononta).- The rotifer fauna of peat-swamps in southern Thailand.- Freshwater Rotifera from plankton of the Kerguelen Islands (Subantarctica).- Rotifers in saline waters from Disko Island, West Greenland.- Reproductive isolation among geographically and temporally isolated marine Brachionus strains.- Rhinoglena frontalis (Rotifera, Monogononta): a scanning electron microscopic study.- The rotifer fauna of Lake Kud-Thing, a shallow lake in Nong Khai Province, northeastThailand.- Biodiversity of Rotifera in some tropical floodplain lakes of the Brahmaputra river basin, Assam (N.E. India).- Review paper Early contributions of molecular phylogenetics to understanding the evolution of Rotifera.- The approach to equilibrium of multilocus genotype diversity under clonal selection and cyclical parthenogenesis.- A survey of introns in three genes of rotifers.- Review paper Biotechnology and aquaculture of rotifers.- Factors affecting low temperature preservation of the marine rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis Tschugunoff.- Effect of unionized ammonia, viscosity and protozoan contamination on reproduction and enzyme activity of the rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis.- High density culture of the freshwater rotifer, Brachionus calyciflorus.- Acute toxicity tests on three species of the genus Lecane (Rotifera: Monogononta).- Studies on Brachionus (Rotifera): an example of interaction between fundamental and applied research.

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