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Brine shrimp, the Glossary

Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp or sea monkeys.^[1]

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Acceleration

In mechanics, acceleration is the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time.

Acta Astronautica

Acta Astronautica is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all fields of physical, engineering, life, and social sciences related to the peaceful scientific exploration of space.

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Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

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Apollo 16

Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon.

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Apollo 17

Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit.

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Appendage

An appendage (or outgrowth) is an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism's or microorganism's body.

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Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).

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Aquaculture (journal)

Aquaculture is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on aquaculture, published by Elsevier.

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Artemia franciscana

Artemia franciscana is a species of brine shrimp endemic to the Americas but now widely introduced throughout the tropics and temperate zones worldwide. Brine shrimp and Artemia franciscana are Anostraca.

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Artemia monica

Artemia monica, the Mono Lake brine shrimp, is a species of brine shrimp, endemic to Mono Lake in California, United States. Brine shrimp and Artemia monica are Anostraca.

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Artemia parthenogenetica

Artemia parthenogenetica is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans belonging to a different class, the Branchiopoda, than the true shrimps. Brine shrimp and Artemia parthenogenetica are Anostraca.

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Artemia salina

Artemia salina is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans that are more closely related to Triops and cladocerans than to true shrimp. Brine shrimp and Artemia salina are Anostraca.

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Arthropod

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.

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Automixis

Automixis is the fusion of (typically haploid) nuclei or gametes derived from the same individual.

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Bioindicator

A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment.

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Biosatellite 2

Biosatellite 2, also known as Biosat 2 or Biosatellite B, was the second mission in NASA's Biosatellite program for biological research.

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Birkhäuser

Birkhäuser was a Swiss publisher founded in 1879 by Emil Birkhäuser.

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British Ecological Society

The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913.

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California State Water Resources Control Board

The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is one of six branches of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

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Chorion

The chorion is the outermost fetal membrane around the embryo in mammals, birds and reptiles (amniotes).

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Compound eye

A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.

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Cosmic ray

Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Crustacean larva

Crustaceans may pass through a number of larval and immature stages between hatching from their eggs and reaching their adult form.

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Cryptobiosis

Cryptobiosis or anabiosis is a metabolic state in extremophilic organisms in response to adverse environmental conditions such as desiccation, freezing, and oxygen deficiency.

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Diapause

In animal dormancy, diapause is the delay in development in response to regular and recurring periods of adverse environmental conditions.

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DNA annotation

In molecular biology and genetics, DNA annotation or genome annotation is the process of describing the structure and function of the components of a genome, by analyzing and interpreting them in order to extract their biological significance and understand the biological processes in which they participate.

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

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Ecological niche

In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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Embryo

An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.

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Endangered Species Act of 1973

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.

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Endocytosis

Endocytosis is a cellular process in which substances are brought into the cell.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.

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Extremophile

An extremophile is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive) in extreme environments, i.e., environments with conditions approaching or stretching the limits of what known life can adapt to, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or pH level.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fertilisation

Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a zygote and initiate its development into a new individual organism or offspring.

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Fish farming

Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.

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Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds.

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Foton (satellite)

Foton (or Photon) is the project name of two series of Russian science satellite and reentry vehicle programs.

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Ganglion

A ganglion (ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system.

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Gene

In biology, the word gene has two meanings.

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Genetic linkage

Genetic linkage is the tendency of DNA sequences that are close together on a chromosome to be inherited together during the meiosis phase of sexual reproduction.

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Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

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Hatchery

A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish, poultry or even turtles.

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Inbreeding depression

Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness that has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals).

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Instar

An instar (from the Latin īnstar 'form, likeness') is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Intron

An intron is any nucleotide sequence within a gene that is not expressed or operative in the final RNA product.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology

The Journal of Evolutionary Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly covering the field of evolutionary biology.

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Kosmos 1129

Bion 5, also known as Kosmos 1129 (in Russian: Бион 5, Космос-1129) was a Bion satellite.

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Kosmos 782

Kosmos 782 or Bion 3 (Бион 3, Космос 782) was a Bion satellite.

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Koyashskoye Salt Lake

Koyashskoye or Koiaske is a salt lake on the coast of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea, separated from the Black Sea by a strip of land.

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Lake Urmia

Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iran.

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Liquid air

Liquid air is air that has been cooled to very low temperatures (cryogenic temperatures), so that it has condensed into a pale blue mobile liquid.

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the City of Los Angeles and several adjacent cities and communities in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.

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Lymington

Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England.

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Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin, also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.

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Messinian salinity crisis

The Messinian salinity crisis (also referred to as the Messinian event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event) was a geological event during which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation (drying-up) throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma (million years ago).

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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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Microbial cyst

A microbial cyst is a resting or dormant stage of a microorganism, that can be thought of as a state of suspended animation in which the metabolic processes of the cell are slowed and the cell ceases all activities like feeding and locomotion.

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Model organism

A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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Mono County, California

Mono County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Mono Lake

Mono Lake is a saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Obligate

As an adjective, obligate means "by necessity" (antonym facultative) and is used mainly in biology in phrases such as.

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Outer space

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.

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Ovulation

Ovulation is the release of eggs from the ovaries.

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Parthenogenesis

Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθένος|translit.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Photographic film

Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.

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Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems.

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Ploidy

Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Portland State University

Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Powder

A powder is a dry, bulk solid composed of many very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted.

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Repeated sequence (DNA)

Repeated sequences (also known as repetitive elements, repeating units or repeats) are short or long patterns that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity).

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Scientific control

A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable (i.e. confounding variables).

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Sea-Monkeys

Sea-Monkeys is a marketing term for brine shrimp (Artemia) sold as novelty aquarium pets.

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Sequence assembly

In bioinformatics, sequence assembly refers to aligning and merging fragments from a longer DNA sequence in order to reconstruct the original sequence.

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Sodium hydroxide

Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Soybean

The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

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Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Tardigrade

Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.

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Thelytoky

Thelytoky (from the Greek thēlys "female" and tokos "birth") is a type of parthenogenesis and is the absence of mating and subsequent production of all female diploid offspring as for example in aphids.

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Thorax

The thorax (thoraces or thoraxes) or chest is a part of the anatomy of mammals and other tetrapod animals located between the neck and the abdomen.

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Toxicology testing

Toxicology testing, also known as safety assessment, or toxicity testing, is the process of determining the degree to which a substance of interest negatively impacts the normal biological functions of an organism, given a certain exposure duration, route of exposure, and substance concentration.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_shrimp

Also known as Artemia, Artemiidae, Artemiina, Brine shrimps, Brine-shrimps.

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