Preface: evolving rotifers, evolving science
Preface: evolving rotifers, evolving science
Linda May . Elizabeth J. Walsh 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Miloslav Devetter . Diego Fontaneto . Christian D. Jersabek . David B. Mark Welch . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
th International Rotifer Symposium 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0 M. Devetter University of South Bohemia , Branisˇovska ́ 31, 370 05 C
1 M. Devetter (&) Biology Centre, Institute of Soil Biology, The Czech Academy of Sciences , Na Sa ́dka ́ch 7, 370 05 C
2 Guest editors: M. Devetter , D. Fontaneto, C. D. Jersabek , D. B. Mark Welch, L. May & E. J. Walsh / Evolving rotifers , evolving science
3 E. J. Walsh Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso , El Paso, TX , USA
4 L. May Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bush Estate , Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0QB, Scotland , UK
5 D. B. Mark Welch Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution , Woods Hole, MA , USA
6 C. D. Jersabek Department of Organismal Biology, University of Salzburg , 5020 Salzburg , Austria
7 D. Fontaneto National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Ecosystem Study , Largo Tonolli 50, 28922 Verbania Pallanza , Italy
The International Rotifer Symposium held in Cˇ eske´ Budeˇjovice, Czech Republic, from August 30th to September 4th 2015 was the 14th meeting of the rotifer family. These Symposia are a series of informal gatherings of researchers interested in rotifers. Participants usually include researchers who devote most, if not all, of their time to aspects of rotifer biology, ecology, and systematics, practitioners who encounter rotifers in their work, and researchers from disparate fields who find rotifers to be interesting model systems to address their research questions. In 2015, attendees included 124 participants from 28 countries (Fig. 1), with highest representation from Mexico, USA, and China. The 14th symposium continued the informal atmosphere of previous meetings, and the papers assembled here represent part of the research findings that were presented and discussed, or ideas that were developed during the meeting. The papers cover a wide array of research questions that are addressed using rotifers as the focal species. The most well-known model system among rotifers is the complex of cryptic and pseudo-
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Fig. 1 Group photo of the attendees of the 14th International
Rotifer Symposium held in Cˇ eske´ Budeˇjovice, Czech Republic,
from August 30th to September 4th 2015. 1: Giulio Melone, 2:
Alma Rosa Nu´n˜ez Ortiz, 3: Gerardo Garc´ıa Garc´ıa, 4: Uriel
Arreguin Rebolledo, 5: Wioleta Kocerba-Soroka, 6: Georgia
Stamou, 7: Llu´ıs Franch Gras, 8: Miloslav Devetter, 9:
Evangelia Michaloudi, 10: Eva Tarazona Castelblanque, 11:
Claudia Ricci, 12: Roberto Rico-Mart´ınez, 13: Marco Antonio
Jime´nez Santos, 14: Daniel Robles Vargas, 15: Eduardo M.
Garc´ıa-Roger, 16: Karel Janko, 17: Manuel Eduardo Mun˜oz
Colmenarez, 18: Christopher G Wilson, 19: Nataliia Iakovenko,
20: Jose´ Luis Gama-Flores, 21: Adam Cieplinsky, 22: Ivo
Prˇikryl, 23: Mar´ıa Elena Huidobro-Salas, 24: unidentified, 25:
Martha Ange´lica Gutie´rrez-Aguirre, 26: Naomi Zweerus, 27:
Matthieu Terwagne, 28: Bernard Hallet, 29: Anna Basin´ska, 30:
Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin, 31: Nandini Sarma, 32: Maria Rosa
Miracle, 33: Adria´n Cervantes Mart´ınez, 34: Karine Van
Doninck, 35: Julie Blommaert, 36: Maria Sˇ poljar, 37: Natalia
Kuczynska-Kippen, 38: Luc Brendonck, 39: Claus-Peter
Stelzer, 40: Elizabeth Wurdak, 41: Diego Fontaneto, 42: Holger
Herlyn, 43: Denis Roze, 44: Simone Riß, 45: Daniel Vaˇrecha,
cryptic species that goes under the name of
Brachionus plicatilis Mu¨ ller. This species complex is
frequently used in aquaculture, as food for fish, and in
ecological and evolutionary studies. As a result,
several papers deal with members of this species
complex, including the ecological and evolutionary
Fig. 2 Publication trends from the Proceedings of the Fourteen
International Rotifer Symposia, 1977–2017. A Distribution of
the number of authors per paper, on a logarithmic scale. The
trend line represents the results of a linear regression model
using logarithmic transformation of the number of authors as the
response variable and proceeding number as the explanatory
variable (t = 11.3, P \ 0.0001). B Number of papers in each of
the proceedings. The two dashed lines represent the
nonsignificant trends for the two periods from volume 1 to 10
(t = 1.4, P = 0.206) and volume 11 to 14 (t = 0.8, P = 0.487).
Although no trend is shown in either period, the number of
papers per volume in the first period is significantly higher than
Another model rotifer species that is now providing
a useful comparison with B. plicatilis is Brachionus
calyciflorus Pallas. Two papers in this volume cover
its population dynamics (Sommer et al., 2017;
Zweerus et al., 2017) and a third one a rationale for
that in the second (ANOVA: F1,12 = 44.8, P \ 0.0001).
C Number of papers per participant in each of the proceedings,
on a (...truncated)