There is wide interest in understanding how genetic diversity is generated and maintained in parthenogenetic lineages, as it will help clarify the debate of the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction. There are three mechanisms that can be responsible for the generation of genetic diversity of parthenogenetic lineages: contagious parthenogenesis, repeated hybridization and microorgani...

Contagious parthenogenesis-a process involving rare functional males produced by a parthenogenetic lineage which mate with coexisting sexual females resulting in fertile parthenogenetic offspring-is one of the most striking mechanisms responsible for the generation of new parthenogenetic lineages. Populations of the parthenogenetic diploid brine shrimp Artemia produce fully functional males in ...

because of limitations of production of unicellular green algae (especially in large volumes), this study aimed to culture artemia using three sources of cheap agricultural by-products that were coupled with small amounts of unicellular algae dunaliella salina. the results of growth and survival, biomass production, individual wet weight, wet and ash percent, fcr and sgr and nutritional value o...

Explaining cases of long-term persistence of parthenogenesis has proven an arduous task for evolutionary biologists. Interpreting sexual-asexual interactions though has recently advanced owing to methodological design, increased taxon sampling and choice of model organisms. We inferred the phylogeny of Artemia, a halophilic branchiopod genus of sexual and parthenogenetic forms with cosmopolitan...

In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations, which can be counted among the hypersaline habitats of the brine shrimp Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca)....

In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations, which can be counted among the hypersaline habitats of the brine shrimp Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca)....

This is the first study on phylogenetic relationships in the genus Artemia Leach, 1819 using the pattern and sequence of secondary structures of internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1). Significant intraspecific variation in the secondary structure of ITS1 rRNA was found in Artemia tibetiana. In the phylogenetic tree based on joined primary and secondary structure sequences, Artemia urmiana and pa...

brine shrimp artemia, is a small crustacean which is found naturally in salt lakes and lagoons. sofar several bisexual and parthenogenetic artemia populations have been reported which have different phenotypic and genotypic characters. the biological properties of some populations has not been studied yet. regarding that the populations of turkey have not been characterized so far, in present s...

artemia, a small crustacean, with high commercial value is a valuable model organism for researchers. this creature by tolerating extreme range of different environmental conditions is dispersed to more than 600 and 18 sites over the world and iran, respectively. tashk lake is one the natural parthenogenetic artemia habitat in iran. due to occurrence of an unknown bisexual artemia in tashk lake...