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The choice to have sex has everything to do with location, at least for tiny freshwater creatures called rotifers.

They contend that microbes, like rotifers, are not just a blur of variation but clusters adapted to particular ecological niches.

So it is no surprise that it also works for a group of small creatures known as rotifers.

A study in the journal Science suggests that for bdelloid rotifers, the answer is blowing in the wind.

The only discovered animals are water bears , mites , microscopic rotifers .

This gives the rotifers a wider pool of genes to help them adapt and survive, the researchers said in the journal Science.

They observed that the rotifers were able to blow away and leave the fungi behind.

"In bdelloid rotifers we found many genes that appear to have originated in bacteria, fungi, and plants, " they wrote.

Tiny organisms called rotifers and copepods, meanwhile, consume bacteria, cleaning out pathogens like salmonella.

Barely visible without a microscope, rotifers eat algae and serve primarily as food for baby fish.

To find out why, scientists infected rotifers with a deadly fungus.

Dr Watabe and his colleagues first looked at whether caloric restriction does, indeed, work its magic on rotifers. It does.

Rotifers are unusual in that they often reproduce by parthenogenesis (some species, indeed, can reproduce only in this way).

So for celibate rotifers that want to stay clean, a good long dry spell is just what the doctor ordered.

The researchers, based at Cambridge University, focused on bdelloid rotifers, female microscopic organisms that live in freshwater pools.

The intriguing result came when they did the same thing with the rotifers' offspring.

What makes this news is that the offspring of the rotifers in question also lived longer than normal.

The search for an elixir of life has taken people to some strange places. Few, though, are stranger than rotifers.

the rotifers and protozoa respectively for 22.

rotifers are female, and they make embryos without any need for sperm.

Eutrophication impact on community structure and species diversity of rotifers in five lakes of Anhui

Effects of phthalate acid esters on population growth and sexual reproduction of rotifers Brachionus calyciflorus

No Sex Please, We're Rotifers: Tiny Aquatic Animals Can Clone Themselves Using Progesterone

A Study on Rotifers and Water Quality Assessment of the Fuzhou Inland River

Relationship of Rotifers and Ecological Environment in Erhai Lake

Relationship between the Trophication Classification and the Community Structure of Rotifers in Four Lakes

Studies on the Dilution Rate for Continuously Reared Rotifers

A Study on Breeding Rotifers with Super-Density in Circulated Water

Preliminary Study on the Feeding Rotifers of Ayu Plecoglossus altivelis

Preliminary studies on rotifers in the Nanhu Lake, Wuhan