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A colorful killer: Daphnia infected with the bacterium Spirobacillus cienkowskii exhibit unexpected color variation
Author(s) -
Wale Nina,
Turrill McKenna L.,
Duffy Meghan A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.1002/ecy.2562
Subject(s) - daphnia , variation (astronomy) , ecology , biology , content (measure theory) , host (biology) , evolutionary biology , zoology , crustacean , mathematics , physics , astrophysics , mathematical analysis
When Elie Metchnikoff peered into a pond in the autumn of 1885, he saw something unusual. Among the many small, clear zooplankton that lived there a few 'distinguished themselves by their scarlet red.

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