Biologists sized up an unlikely natural phenomenon: when parasitism actually causes the number of hosts to increase, an effect known as a hydra effect. A study of common water fleas and their fungal ...

The common water flea, Daphnia pulex, will be used as a model organism to study how genetic function is influenced by manmade environmental stress at a population level in a course on Environmental ...

Male water fleas that scientists have never seen have made their debut in a UB laboratory, providing biologists with their first glimpse of these elusive organisms. It also demonstrates that ...

In Greek mythology, Hydra was a monstrous water serpent that lived in a swamp and terrorized nearby residents. When intrepid Hercules sliced off one of Hydra’s multiple heads, two more heads grew back ...