CROSS-MATING STUDY OF EURYHALINE ROTIFER BRACHIONUS PLICATILIS STRAINS AS A MEANS TO DEVELOP USEFUL STRAINS FOR LIVE FOOD

摘要

Monogonont rotifer is an excellent model organism for speciation study. Cross-mating experiments have been conducted on euryhaline Brachionus strains in order to determine their species boundaries (Snell, 1989; Fu et al., 1993; Gomez and Serra, 1995;Hagiwara et al., 1995). In the field of live food science, newly inbred strains resulting from cross-mating are of interest, especially if these strains have valuable characteristics.