How to Use rotifer in a Sentence

rotifer

noun

• That’s just warm enough that the ice worms and rotifers don’t freeze.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2017
• The hardy rotifer can live through all manner of conditions, but this is a historic feat even for this tiny creature.
  — Wired, 27 June 2021
• The threads feast on the fat droplets released, then withdraw, leaving just a shell and bacteria in the depleted rotifer body.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 25 Feb. 2021
• And in one sample collected in 2015, the researchers found this one little rotifer.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2021
• Once eaten, the fungal spores produce cells that threaten to devour the rotifer from the inside out within just 2 weeks.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2010
• Shain says samples of the Icelandic rotifers were frozen at -80 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks and recovered just fine.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2017
• Shain says samples of the Icelandic rotifers were frozen at -80 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks and recovered just fine.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2017
• The Notojima strain is the largest L rotifer used by Japanese fish farmers.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
• Radiocarbon dating revealed the rotifer to be twenty-four thousand years old.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• Another world would emerge as protozoa and rotifers wiggled into focus.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
• Researchers confirmed the rotifer’s advanced age by radiocarbon dating the surrounding soil.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
• A month later, a microscopic, wormlike invertebrate known as a bdelloid rotifer was crawling around inside.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• Video: Commonly known as wheel animals, rotifers feed by means of a ring of slender projections called cilia, which appear to spin like a propeller as the animal draws in water filled with a meal of dead bacteria, algae and other detritus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2014
• Among rotifer classes, bdelloids have the fairly unusual ability to reproduce parthenogenetically—i.e., by cloning—and so the original specimens had already begun to do so.
  — Wired, 27 June 2021
• Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2013

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024