A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE HISTORIES OF MICTIC AND AMICTIC FEMALES IN THE ROTIFER, HYDATINA SENTA

This paper deals with a comparison of the life cycle of the bisexual rotifer, Hydatina senta. The three types of individuals, amictic, unfertilized mictic, and fertilized mictic females are compared as to the periods of their life histories.The mean length of life for the amictic females is 192.95 ± 2.1947 hours; for the unfertilized mictic females 170.43 ± 1.3051 hours; and for the fertilized mictic females 172.43 ± .4983 hours. More than half of the amictic females survive the modal life duration.The longer life of the amictic females, as compared with the mictic, results from the probable differences in metabolic rate of the two. The amictic and mictic females produce practically the same number of offspring, the mean fecundity for the amictic is 45.39 ± .3261 and for the unfertilized mictic 42.520 ± .5288.The mean duration of the fecundity period of the amictic female is 81.25 ± 1.1250 hours with a standard deviation of 22.53 ± .7819 hours and a coefficient of variability of 27.72 per cent. The mean f...

• Publication year

  1932

• Venue

  The Biological Bulletin

• Publication date

  1932-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.2307/1537345
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