Bdelloid Sentence Examples
The image of the bdelloid rotifer was exposed using electronic flash.
As rotifers are common in ponds, the first workers with the microscope observed them repeatedly, the first record being that of John Harris in 1696, who found a Bdelloid in a gallipot that had been standing in his window.
This statement may seem to need qualification; for the male of no Bdelloid has been seen, and there is but a doubtful record of" winter-eggs in this group. But possibly, as in Seisonaceae, the males resemble the females, and have escaped recognition.
The most common type of rotifer found in these habitats is usually the bdelloid type, which moves somewhat like a leech.
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