… Here, we study whether natural rotifer populations locally adapt to the degree of
environmental unpredictability by evolving diverging strategies for both the propensity for sexual …

… parthenogenetic rotifers results in … adaptation to environmental unpredictability can occur
by the evolution of bet-hedging strategies. When facing unpredictability in the length of rotifer …

… for unpredictable environments are bet‐hedging strategies and usually involve: partial (stochastic)
responses to environmental … morphs and likely are adaptations for an uncertain future: …

… The rotifer Brachionus plicatilis is a zooplankton … adaptation to environmental unpredictability.
In this thesis the first objective was to quantify the degree of environmental unpredictability …

… sexual rotifers can … vs unpredictable) in laboratory populations of the rotifer Brachionus
plicatilis. Here, we investigate the genomic basis of adaptation to environmental unpredictability …

… While adapting to environmental uncertainty is important … of fitness in the different
environmental situations (which is often … In unpredictable environments, we expect to find …

… was to quantify the degree of environmental unpredictability of the studied Mediterranean …
rotifer populations, and hence the early investment in diapause, decreased with environmental …

… local adaptation to environmental uncertainty levels, using rotifers as model organisms.
This work also takes advantage of the accumulated knowledge on the monogonont rotifer B. …

… on micro-evolutionary adaptation using rotifers as model organisms… for rapid adaptation
(reviewed by Declerck and Papakostas ). … by habitat unpredictability in natural rotifer populations. …

Organisms inhabit environments in which abiotic and biotic conditions are not constant, but
vary temporally and/or spatially. Such environmental fluctuations are ubiquitous in nature …