Bdelloidea / ˈdɛlɔɪdiə / (from Greek βδέλλα, bdella 'leech') is a class of rotifers found in freshwater habitats all over the world. There are over 450 described species of bdelloid rotifers (or …

Mar 24, 2008 · Bdelloid rotifers are one of the strangest of all animals. Uniquely, these small, freshwater invertebrates reproduce entirely asexually and have avoided sex for some 80 …

Jun 7, 2021 · Bdelloid rotifers typically live in watery environments and have an incredible ability to survive. Russian scientists found the creatures in a core of frozen soil extracted from the …

Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals that are easily recognized by the pair of ciliated, eversible disks (corona) that most species have on their heads and their characteristic …

In the case of the bdelloids, we lack a detailed phylogenetic tree of rotifers that would show whether their sister group is all of the monogononts or only one branch. There is still much to …

Jun 7, 2021 · Here, we report the survival of an obligate parthenogenetic bdelloid rotifer, recovered from northeastern Siberian permafrost radiocarbon-dated to ∼24,000 years BP. …

Jul 4, 2021 · Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals that are easily recognized by the pair of ciliated, eversible disks (corona) that most species have on their heads and their …

A bdelloid rotifer similar to Adineta ricciae. Adineta ricciae is a microscopic invertebrate that can grow to a length of about 0.2 millimetres (0.008 in). It has a retractable head with two …

Feb 24, 2025 · A total of 109 bdelloid rotifer species were identified, including three newly recorded genera, 26 newly recorded species, and two new species (Adineta jinan Wang & …

Sep 30, 2009 · Bdelloid rotifers have survived without sex for some 80 million years by uncoupling the fates of their pairs of genes, getting two for the price of one.