You can actually see the heart of a daphnia beating under the microscope, as well as their digestive system, and even the process of reproduction.

Adult Daphnia microscope image (IMAGE) Society for Experimental Biology Caption This is a mature Daphnia magna imaged under a microscope at 20x magnification.

Daphnia under a microscope can bend light, creating psychedelic patterns that Meghan Duffy loves to capture on camera. Image courtesy of Meghan Duffy ...

A unique web-based resource of Daphnia, a sentinel species for environmental pollution, commonly used to help us detect and understand the potential toxic effects of chemicals in the environment ...

These stunning images show the world from under a microscope From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic glimpse ...

Complexity ever in the eye of its beholders, the animal with the most genes -- about 31,000 -- is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans ...

When a species of microalgae gets inside a zooplankton that feeds on it, it smothers the grazer’s eggs and disrupts reproduction. By Priyanka Runwal Peering through a microscope in 2016, Dania ...

BioBus originated as an experiment to test Dubin-Thaler’s hypothesis that, given the opportunity to use research-microscopes to perform hands-on experiments, anyone would fall in love with science.

Light microscope image of a water flea (Daphnia) giving birth, with one of its young already free in the water. This is an example of parthenogenesis (live birth of offspring genetically identical ...

To specifically characterize the gut microbiota, the digestive tracts of 15 Daphnia were pooled after dissecting them under a stereo-microscope using sterilized dissecting needles.