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Life History Variation in Monogonont Rotifers

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Over the last decades, monogonont rotifers have proven to be excellent experimental models for life history studies. Their short life cycle and the ease of culturing rotifers facilitate experimental studies over one or several generations. Clonal reproduction allows the same genotype to be replicated over an essentially unlimited number of factors and factor combinations. Altogether this has led to a myriad of studies on how different factors can affect life history variables in rotifers. The purpose of this review is to give an overview on the main life history traits of the rotifer life cycle and to summarize the basic sources of variation of these life history traits, i.e., phenotypic plasticity (external factors affecting life history variables of individual genotypes within one generation), genetic variation (genotypic differences among individuals), and other sources of variation (maternal effects, transgenerational effects, developmental stochasticity).

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