minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
And watched three-spined stickleback fish hunt waterfleas, to the accompaniment of either white noise calibrated to match the noise level of speedboats or a silent track as a control.
并控制三刺鱼在跟快艇噪音程度相当的白噪声中，或者完全安静的环境之下，观察它们捕食水蚤的情况。
2
It is transmitted exclusively when people who have little or no access to safe-drinking water supply swallow water contaminated with parasite-infected fleas.
该病的传播纯属当人们极少获得或者不能获得安全饮用水供应时饮用了含有受到寄生虫感染的蚤类的污染水。
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The waterfleas are killed in the stomach but the infective larvae are liberated.