Biology and ecology of Artemia

The first part of the book deals with systematic classification and phylogeny, identifying all the existing species and groups of the genus Artemia. The second part is devoted to the biology of the species, describing its morphology with the help of illustrations, and its physiology, explaining the mechanisms of reproduction in the genus, its diet, respiratory system and osmotic regulation mechanisms. The last part covers the ecology of the species, defining its geographical distribution, differentiation and morphological identification, i.e. the possibility of identifying a population through a series of measurements of the body and appendages of a few individuals from this population reared under standard laboratory conditions. The morphometric parameters considered in these methods are the length of the abdomen, the length of the caudal fork and the number and insertion of setae in relation to size and sex. Finally, a description of practical techniques for the quality of cysts and nauplii is given, starting with the purification of cysts and the obtaining of nauplii.