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We examined the effect of low temperature treatment(12°C), followed by transfer to highertemperature (25°C), on resting egg formation ofthe rotifer Brachionus plicatilis, Kamiurastrain. This strain has been mass cultured as livefeed at Kamiura Station (Japan Sea FarmingAssociation) for 9 years at 20°C without theappearance of sexual reproductive stages.After preculture in 20 l of 27‰ seawater at 12°C for 0, 10, 20, and 30 days,rotifers were inoculated into 0.5 l mass cultures andcultured at 25°C for 7–9 days. The inoculationdensities were changed from 20 to 400 ind. ml−1,depending on mixis rate. Condensed and frozen Nannochloropsis oculata was fed to rotifers at thefeeding rate of 0.14 µg (dry weight)rotifer−1day−1. The control was cultured at12°C for the entire 36 day experiment. No mixisappeared and no resting eggs were produced when thelow temperature treatment was 0 or 10 days. However,mixis rates reached 50-60% after 20 or 30 days ofexposure to 12°C. The number of resting eggsproduced in these treatments reached 25,500 about 13 times higher than the control. Our resultssuggest that low temperature stimulated mictic femaleproduction and the transfer to the high temperatureaccelerated resting egg formation. This method may beuseful for producing resting eggs of rotifer strainsthat lack sexual reproduction in the common culturecondition at larval rearing facilities.
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Kogane, T., Hagiwara, A. & Imaizumi, K. Temperature conditions enhancing resting egg production of the euryhaline rotifer Brachionus plicatilis O. F. Müller (Kamiura strain). Hydrobiologia 358, 167–171 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003180818806
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