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Jean Blanchot and Roger Pourriot; [Influence de trois facteurs de l'environnement, lumiere, temperature et salinite, sur l'eclosion des aeufs de duree d'un clone de Brachionus plicatilis (O.F. Muller) Rotifere] (Influence of Three Environmental Factors: Light, Temperature and Salinity on the Hatching of Resting Eggs from Brachionus plicatilis Clone). C.R.Acad.Sc.Paris 295:243-246, 1982
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The authors studied the conditions which favor hatching of resting eggs in a laboratory population of B. plicatilis, and also the ones that maintain them in a dormant state. Although embryonic mortality is sometimes high, optimum hatching rates are observed only in the presence of light, at a temperature range of 14 to 20 degrees C and in a culture medium of average salinity. Storing resting eggs in darkness, at low temperatures (<10 degrees C) or at high salinity (~/_33 0/00) keeps them dormant.