Alireza Asem

The genus Artemia Leach, 1819 is a complex taxon with both sexual species and asexual populations. The asexual populations are considered as biological species "Artemiaparthenogenetica Barigozzi, 1974" (BROWNE & BOWEN 1991). Since the reproductive mechanism of parthenogenetic Artemia is via parthenogenesis, males are rarly produced among these individuals. Therefore, they are introduced nowada ...

INTRODUCTIONCyanobacterial blooms in freshwater ecosystems have created serious water quality problems. These problems and their ecological consequences have been intensively studied in freshwater (Chorus and Bartram, 1999; Chorus, 2001; Adeyemi, 2009; Sahmoune et al., 2009; Khanna et al., 2009; Mishra et al., 2009; Banerjee and Srivastava, 2010; Adekunle et al., 2010). Harmful effects of cyanobac ...

INTRODUCTIONThe genus Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) is a complex of bisexual and parthenogenetic species, which have very similar morphological characters. Artemia has widely distribution on the 5 continents in many salt lakes, coastal lagoons and solar salt-works (Van staapen, 2002). The Urmia Lake is the second large lake (average total surface 5000 km2) in Iran, which is located in West Azerba ...

INTRODUCTION The genus Artemia Leach, 1819 is cosmopolitan and includes seven species, with various geographically widespread strains (Triantaphyllidis et al., 1998). The origin of populations can be natural through cyst dispersal by water birds or wind, or artificial through inoculation of cysts in salt works (Sorgeloos et al., 1986). Artemia strains can be sexual, such as in the American and in ...

The cysts of brine shrimp Artemia are widely used in the aquaculture industry (Sorgeloos 1980, Sorgeloos et al. 1998, Sorgeloos et al. 2001). They are produced commercially by culturists in many places or harvested from their natural habitat, such as the Great Salt Lake (Van Stappen 2003). Irrespective of the fact that each species or population has its own unique characteristics, the processing o ...

The brine shrimp Artemia is a small crustacean that can be found in saline waters in all over the world in natural habitats or commercial farms. The brine shrimp is a unique aquatic animal which is used in aquaculture systems (Bengtson & Sorgeloos, 1991). The Urmia Lake is one of the largest hyper-saline lakes in the world with a total surface area between 4750 km2 and 6100 km2 (Azari Takami, ...

ABSTRACT The brine shrimp Artemia is important for aquaculture since it is bighly nutritious. It is also used widely in biological studies because it is easy to culture. The aim of the present study is to review the literature on the taxonomical nomenclature of Artemia. The present study indicates the existence of seven species: three living in the Americas, one in Europe, and three in Asia. Key ...