Among the stems and leaves of the ancient mosses, the researchers found fossils of tiny crustaceans called ostracods, fragments of larval casings of mosquito-like flies called midges and a millimeter-wide bit of a beetle shell. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Their research has revealed fossilized evidence for reproduction using giant sperm in a group of small aquatic crustaceans, called ostracods, dating back to ❋ Unknown (2009)
Boy ostracods attract girl ostracods by using flashing lights. ❋ Doyle (2009)
Boy ostracods use "a special long leg" to pass sperm into girl ostracods. ❋ Doyle (2009)
Wiggly red worms, squirming ostracods, larvae of all sorts. ❋ Doyle (2008)
While transitions to parthenogenesis are rare in most other animal groups, about one-third of all freshwater ostracods have given up sex. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Freshwater ostracods are free-living except for members of one group which are commensal on the gills of crayfish. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The ability of eggs, larvae, and adults to withstand freezing and desiccation is a very important biological characteristic which aids the dispersal of ostracods from one body of water to another. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The criterion used by Martens et al. 2004 to decide that the ostracods from forest leaf litter were terrestrial, however, agrees with mine. ❋ AYDIN (2008)
Freshwater ostracods go through eight moult stages before they mature. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Several large muscles are directly attached to the carapace, and these points of attachment leave scars that are useful in discriminating some groups of ostracods. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In response to another researcher, who did not consider similar ostracods to be terrestrial, this is what they said:...did not consider his ostracods from terrestrial habitats themselves to be terrestrial, because these animals gather a film of moisture around and within their valves, so that they still breath through water. ❋ AYDIN (2008)
Freshwater ostracods are remarkable for their high frequency of species which have abandoned sexual reproduction. ❋ Unknown (2008)
