pulex

• “250 The idea would readily occur in Egypt where the pulex is still a plague although the Sultan is said to hold his court at Tiberias.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Mesocosm studies by Beisner et al. [34], which investigated the influence of increasing temperature and food chain length on plankton predator – prey dynamics, showed that the predator – prey system is destabilized at higher temperatures (i.e., the macrozooplankton herbivore Daphnia pulex always became extinct), irrespective of the complexity of the food web (i.e., whether a two - or three-level food web was involved).”

  Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic

• “The water flea Daphnia pulex monitors chemical traces of predators as it develops.”

  The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics

• “In 75 years, this new lineage has become dominant despite the presence of resting native egg banks and competition from native D. pulex and ten additional daphnid species.”

  Aquatic invasive species

• “The waterflea Daphnia pulex, common to eutrophic, or nutrient-rich, freshwater systems.”

  Aquatic invasive species

• “A single American lineage of D. pulex replaced a diverse assemblage of genotypes in Africa.”

  Aquatic invasive species

• “French, literally, flea, from Old French pulce, from Latin pulic-, pulex — more at psylla”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “And, if the establishment be simple, it is also neat and clean: we never suffered from the cimex and pulex of which”

  Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo

• “Such small creatures as _Daphnia pulex_, _Cyclops quadricornis_ and”

  Amateur Fish Culture

• “A German fish culturist has recently recommended keeping a stock of fresh-water shrimps (_Gammarus pulex_) in the hatching trays and rearing boxes.”

  Amateur Fish Culture

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