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Induction and Ecological Significance of Gigantism in the Rotifer Asplanchna sieboldi.

J J Gilbert.   

Abstract

Dietary alpha-tocopherol and cannibalism together induce the giant, campanulate morphotype. Campanulates, unlike the two smaller female morphotypes, do not respond to alpha-tocopherol by forming male-producing offspring. Campanulate production probably is very significant ecologically, allowing a rapid, adaptive response to increased prey size and a rapid reproductive rate uninter-rupted by sexuality and consequent dormancy.

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Year:  1973        PMID： 17769827     DOI： 10.1126/science.181.4094.63

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  8 in total

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2.  Character displacement and the origins of diversity.

Authors:  David W Pfennig; Karin S Pfennig
Journal:  Am Nat       Date:  2010-12       Impact factor: 3.926

Review 3.  Resource polyphenism increases species richness: a test of the hypothesis.

Authors:  David W Pfennig; Matthew McGee
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2010-02-27       Impact factor: 6.237

4.  Polymorphism in the rotifer Asplanchna sieboldi. Fine structure of saccate, cruciform and campanulate females.

Authors:  E S Wurdak; J J Gilbert
Journal:  Cell Tissue Res       Date:  1976-07-06       Impact factor: 5.249

5.  Gigantism and the potential for interference competition in the rotifer genus Asplanchna.

Authors:  John J Gilbert; John L Confer
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  1986-11       Impact factor: 3.225

6.  The adaptive significance of polymorphism in the rotifer Asplanchna. Humps in males and females.

Authors:  John J Gilbert
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  1973-06       Impact factor: 3.225

7.  Adaptive value of a predatory mouth-form in a dimorphic nematode.

Authors:  Vahan Serobyan; Erik J Ragsdale; Ralf J Sommer
Journal:  Proc Biol Sci       Date:  2014-09-22       Impact factor: 5.349

8.  Selective cannibalism in the rotifer asplanchna sieboldi: contact recognition of morphotype and clone.

Authors:  J J Gilbert
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1976-09       Impact factor: 11.205
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