Warren Currie 🦠🦐<p>Weekend <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plankton</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Factoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Factoid</span></a> 🦐🦠<br>Like many <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/cladoceran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cladoceran</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/zooplankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zooplankton</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Daphnia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Daphnia</span></a> species usually reproduce by a process known as cyclical <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/parthenogenesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parthenogenesis</span></a>. This strategy is typically a long period of all-female asexual parthenogenetic reproduction for rapid population growth, but under stressful conditions, is followed by production of males and sexual mating to produce resistant tolerant resting eggs called <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ephippia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ephippia</span></a>. These eggs can last for centuries in the sediment, and still be able to hatch out!</p>