@ARTICLE{Meijering_Meertinus_P.D._The_2003, author={Meijering, Meertinus P.D.}, volume={vol. 24}, number={No 2}, journal={Polish Polar Research}, pages={167-172}, howpublished={online}, year={2003}, publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Committee on Polar Research}, abstract={Mud samples from two lakes in West Greenland were kept frozen at –18°C for 18 years. When they were thawed, 4 Cladocera species hatched from diapausing eggs: Daphnia pulex (De Geer, 1778), Macrothrix hirsuticornis (Norman et Brady, 1867) and Chydorus arcticus (Rřen, 1987), which are by far the most abundant Cladocera species in the high Arctic north of 74°N. Another species was Alona quadrangularis (O. F. Müller, 1785), which occurs up to 72°N. All these species gave rise to parthenogenetic offspring and produced ephippia within a time frame comparable to an Arctic summer season. Up to 9 other Cladocera species were likely to be present in the original populations, but did not hatch anymore after 12 years.}, type={Article}, title={The long-lasting resistence of diapausing eggs from Arctic Cladocera frozen at –18°C}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110674/PDF-MASTER/ppr24-167.pdf}, keywords={Arctic, Cladocera, diapausing eggs}, }