John J. Gilbert

Selected Publications

• Gilbert, J. J.  2018.  Morphological variation and its significance in a polymorphic rotifer: environmental, endogenous, and genetic controls. BioScience 68: 169-181.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2017.  Non-genetic polymorphisms in rotifers: environmental and endogenous controls, development, and features for predictable or unpredictable environments. Biological Reviews 92: 964-992.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2017.  Resting-egg hatching and early population development in rotifers: a review and a hypothesis for differences between shallow and deep waters. Hydrobiologia 796: 235-243.

• Gilbert, J.J. 2017.  Spine development in two taxa of Brachionus calyciflorus from Lake Littra, Australia: constitutive and induced defenses against Asplanchna. J. Plankton Res. 39: 962-971.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2014.  Morphological and behavioral responses of a rotifer to the predator Asplanchna. J. Plankton Res. 36: 1576-1584.

• Gilbert, J.J. and M.A. McPeek.  2013.  Maternal age and spine development in a rotifer: ecological implications and evolution. Ecology 94: 2166-2172

• Gilbert, J.J.  2013.  The cost of predator-induced morphological defense in rotifers: experimental studies and synthesis. J. Plankton Res. 35: 461-472.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2012.  Predator-induced defense in rotifers: developmental lags for morph transformations, and effect on population growth. Aquatic Ecol. 46: 475-486.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2012.  Effects of an ostracod (Cypris pubera) on the rotifer Keratella tropica:  predation and reduced spine development. Internat. Rev. Hydrobiol. 97: 445-453.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2011. Temperature, kairomones, and phenotypic plasticity in the rotifer Keratella tropica (Apstein, 1907). Hydrobiologia 678: 179-190.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2011.  Induction of different defenses by two enemies in the rotifer Keratella tropvica: response priority and sensitivity to enemy density. Freshwat. Biol. 56: 926-938.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2010.  Effect of food concentration on the production and viability of resting eggs of the rotifer Brachionus: implications for the timing of sexual reproduction.  Freshwat. Biol. 55: 2437-2446

• Gilbert, J.J. and M.C. Diéguez.  2010.  Low crowding threshold for induction of sexual reproduction and diapause in a Patagonian rotifer. Freshwat. Biol. 55: 1705-1718.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2009.  Predator-specific inducible defenses in the rotifer Keratella tropica.  Freshwat. Biol. 54: 1933-1946.

• Schröder, T and J.J. Gilbert.  2009.  Maternal age and spine development in the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus: increase of spine length with birth order. Freshwat. Biol.  54: 1054-1065.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2007.  Timing of diapause in monogonont rotifers. In: Diapause in aquatic invertebrates: theory and human use (V. Alekseev, J. J. Gilbert and B. De Stasio, eds.). Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp.  11-27.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2007.  Induction of mictic females in the rotifer Brachionus: oocytes of amictic females respond individually to population-density signal only during oogenesis shortly before oviposition. Freshwat. Biol. 52: 1417-1426.

• Gilbert, J.J. and E.J. Walsh.  2005.  Brachionus calyciflorus is a species complex: mating behavior and genetic differentiation among four geographically isolated strains. Hydrobiologia 546: 257-265

• GGilbert, J. J. and T. Schröder.  2004.  Rotifers from diapausing, fertilized eggs: unique features and emergence. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49: 1341-1354.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2004.  Females from resting eggs and parthenogenetic eggs in the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus: lipid droplets, starvation resistance and reproduction. Freshwat. Biol. 49: 1505-1515.

• Schröder, T. and J.J. Gilbert.  2004.  Transgenerational plasticity for sexual reproduction and diapause in the life cycle of monogonont rotifers: intraclonal, intraspecific and interspecific variation in the response to crowding. Functional Ecology 18: 458-466.

• Gilbert, J.J.  2003.  Environmental and endogenous control of sexuality in a rotifer life cycle: developmental and population biology. Evolution & Development 5: 19-24.

• Diéguez, M.C. and J.J. Gilbert.  2003.  Predation by Buenoa macrotibialis (Insecta, Hemiptera) on zooplankton: effect of light on selection and consumption of prey. J. Plankton Res. 25: 759-769.

• Gilbert, J.J. and T. Schröder.  2003.  The ciliate epibiont Epistylis pygmaeum: selection for zooplankton hosts, reproduction and effect on two rotifer hosts. Freshwat. Biol. 48: 878-893.