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WATER FLEA
If you throw a flea into the water, it doesn't suddenly become a water flea. In fact, water fleas aren't even real fleas! They’re small crustaceans called Daphnia which can be traced all the way back to the Jurassic period. This means that, yes, water fleas coexisted with dinosaurs! For centuries, water fleas have played an important role in ecosystems: they eat (bad) algae and are an important food source for many fish and salamanders. In addition, they have some wicked genetics. Some water fleas have as many as 31,000 different genes. To put that into context, a human has only 20,000! Water fleas aren’t as insignificant as you’d think…
Activiteiten
LS&H - EUFEPS/FIGON DMD Annual Meeting
TheEUFEPS/FIGON DMD Annual Meetingwill take place from 1 to 3 June with the theme 'Boosting sustainable drug development in Europe: Top scie...
LS&H - Life Sciences Café: LBSP x unlock_LiveSciences x EUFEPS/ FIGON DMD
Join us on 2 June after work at the Life Sciences Café at Naturalis. We are very excited to organise our monthly network drinks in collabora...
Planktonium
Museum De Lakenhal shows planktonium by Jan van Ijken: a magical art film about the life of plankton.
The Leiden Maths Walk
For lovers of maths, there's a walk they can go on all by themselves: The Leiden Maths Walk with challenging mathematical questions.
