Rotatoria: Proceedings of the 2nd International Rotifer Symposium held at Gent, September 17–21, 1979

Front Matter....Pages 1-6
Preface....Pages 7-11
A Perspective on Aging in Rotifers....Pages 13-19
Experimental Observations on Maternal Reproductive Rate and Offspring Characteristics....Pages 21-25
About a Transmissible Influence Through Several Generations in a Clone of the Rotifer Notommata Copeus Ehr.....Pages 27-31
Workshop on Culture Techniques of Rotifers....Pages 33-35
Methods for Obtaining an Axenic Culture of Habrotrocha Rosa Donner 1949....Pages 37-38
Some Problems in the Embryogenesis of Habrotrocha Rosa Donner 1949....Pages 39-41
The Determination of the Chromosome Number of Habrotrocha Rosa Donner, 1949....Pages 43-44
Mass Culture Experiments With Brachionus Rubens....Pages 45-50
Hatching of Brachionus Rubens O. F. Müller Resting Eggs (Rotifers)....Pages 51-54
Induction of Sexual Reproduction and Resting Egg Production in Brachionus Plicatilis Reared in Sea Water....Pages 55-58
The Effect of Some Biotic and Abiotic Factors on the Fertility of Planktonic Rotifer Species....Pages 59-62
Aspects of the Feeding Behavior and Trophic Ecology of Suspension-Feeding Rotifers....Pages 63-72
In Situ Clearance Rates of Planktonic Rotifers....Pages 73-77
Studies on the Grazing Rate of Notholca Squamula Müller on Asterionella Formosa Hass. At Different Temperatures....Pages 79-81
Detrital Feeding in Natural Zooplankton Communities: Discrimination Between Live and Dead Algal Foods....Pages 83-85
Observations on the Susceptibility of Some Protists and Rotifers to Predation by Asplanchna Girodi....Pages 87-91
Phylogenetic Relationships of Rotifers, as Derived from Photoreceptor Morphology and Other Ultrastructural Analyses....Pages 93-117
A Simplified Method for the Preparation of Rotifers for Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy....Pages 119-122
Ultrastructure and Histochemistry of the Rudimentary Gut of Male Asplanchna Sieboldi (Rotifera)....Pages 123-126
An Ultrastructural Approach to Feeding Behaviour in Philodina Roseola and Brachionus Calyciflorus (Rotifers) I. The Buccal Velum....Pages 127-131
An Ultrastructural Approach to Feeding Behaviour in Philodina Roseola and Brachionus Calyciflorus (Rotifers) II. The Oesophagus....Pages 133-136
An Ultrastructural Approach to Feeding Behaviour in Philodina Roseola and Brachionus Calyciflorus (Rotifers) III. Cilia and Muscles. Conclusions....Pages 137-141
Workshop on the Determination of Population Parameters....Pages 143-143
Metabolic Uniformity Over the Environmental Temperature Range in Brachionus Plicatilis (Rotifera)....Pages 145-147
Density-Dependent Sexual Reproduction in Natural Populations of the Rotifer Asplanchna Girodi....Pages 149-152
The Rotifer Fauna of the River Loire (France), at the Level of the Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 153-160
Ten Years Quantitative Data on a Population of Rhinoglena FertÖEnsis (Brachionidae, Monogononta)....Pages 161-167
The Abundance and Distribution of Filinia Terminalis in Various Types of Lakes as Related to Temperature, Oxygen, and Food....Pages 169-175
On the Ecology of Notholca Squamula Müller in Loch Leven, Kinross, Scotland....Pages 177-180
Ecology of Sessile Rotifers....Pages 181-193
Respiration of Different Stages and Energy Budgets of Juvenile Brachionus Calyciflorus....Pages 195-197
Field Experiments on the Optical Orientation of Pelagic Rotifers....Pages 199-203
Workshop on Taxonomy and Biogeography....Pages 205-206
Variation in the Genus Keratella....Pages 207-213
On the Evolutionary Pathways of Speciation in the Genus Notholca....Pages 215-220
Preliminary Remarks on the Characteristics of the Rotifer Fauna of Australia (Notogaea)....Pages 221-227
Synopsis of Taxonomic Studies on Indian Rotatoria....Pages 229-236
An Historical Survey of the Collection and Study of Rotifers in Britain....Pages 237-240
Asymmetry and Variation in Keratella Tropica....Pages 241-248
Some Peculiar Elements in the Rotifer Fauna of the Atlantic Sahara and of the Atlas Mountains....Pages 249-254
On Morphological Variation in Keratella Cochlearis Populations from Holstein Lakes (Northern Germany)....Pages 255-258
Note on Some Brachionidae (Rotifers) From The Netherlands....Pages 259-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-263