Much about tiny, swimming rotifers makes them ideal study subjects. Although barely visible to the naked eye, these transparent animals and their innards are readily viewed under a microscope. What’s ...

Floscularia ringens is king of its castle. Brick by brick, this microscopic rotifer – or “wheel animal” – builds the tube it inhabits. To make its home, the rotifer gathers organic debris from the ...

AMHEST, Mass. – A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean ...

A female Brachionus manjavacas rotifer, as magnified under a microscope. This rotifer is 350 µm long; about the size of a grain of sand. The hair-like cilia at the top of the individual are used for ...