Caption. This is a mature Daphnia magna imaged under a microscope at 20x magnification. The photo was taken at the end of the 21 day exposure to sunscreen so that we could measure its body length.

The Daphnia Histology Reference Atlas (DaHRA) is a new open-access resource that provides detailed images of Daphnia, a key species for environmental research due to its sensitivity to pollution.

From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic glimpse into a tiny world. These water fleas (Daphnia sp.) can ...

There, Duffy and her students count and inspect the Daphnia they’ve collected. Duffy likes to get them under a microscope, in part because she wants to search their transparent bodies for signs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daphnia magna, a type of tiny water flea, with an invasion of algae in its brood chamber. ... Peering through a microscope in 2016, Dania Albini gazed at an algae-eating water flea.

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.