So this little rotifer shows us something really amazing.

这小小轮虫展示种神奇的可能。

Bdelloid rotifers, meanwhile, have been reproducing parthenogenetically for 60 million years.

与此同时，蛭形轮虫已经孤雌近 6000 万年。

If you wanna get small, there's rotifers and other kinds of...protozoans.

如果你想要小点的，还有轮虫和其他种类的......原动物。

The Notojima strain is the largest L rotifer used by Japanese fish farmers.

日本养鱼户使用的最大的L轮虫品种是三岛品种。

For the smallest fry these are often rotifers, a phylum of tiny animals discovered in the late 17th century by early microscopists.

最小的鱼常会喂食轮虫，轮虫是17世纪晚期由早期显微镜学家发现的门微小动物。

You remember the rotifer we just met?

你还记得我们刚认识的轮虫吗？

It's a feeling of wonder like that first time I looked through a microscope as a kid staring at that rotifer.

这种惊奇感就像我小时候第过显微镜看到轮虫样。

It means that a successful mutated line of rotifers will not be diluted by the genetic mixing caused by sexual congress.

这意味着个成功的轮虫突变系不会被有性繁引起的基因混合所稀释。

The little creatures you see in the center of your screen, they are called rotifer.

你在屏幕中央看到的小物，它们被称为轮虫。

Each time, the Stentor repaired itself and the rotifer never managed to escape.

每，Stentor 都会自我修复，而轮虫永远无法逃脱。

After 25 minutes the rotifer ceased its struggle.

25 分钟后，轮虫停止挣扎。

But neither egg nor the rotifer is going to escape this.

但是鸡蛋和轮虫都无法逃脱这点。

While it was stuck to Heliozoa's axopodia, this rotifer actually lays its egg.

当它粘在日光动物的轴足上时，这种轮虫实际上会产卵。

Paul McEuen: So this little rotifer shows us something really amazing.

Paul McEuen：所以这个小轮虫向我们展示些非常惊人的东西。

In this video, a rotifer has been captured by a Heliozoa and it is slowly getting eaten by it.

在这段视频中，只轮虫被日光动物捕获并慢慢被它吃掉。

Just a reminder, rotifers have a simple brain and a simple nervous system.

提醒下，轮虫有个简单的大脑和个简单的神经系统。

And in one sample collected in 2015, the researchers found this one little rotifer.

霍普金：在 2015 年收集的个样本中，研究人员发现这种小轮虫。

So, the previous record for frozen rotifers was a decade or so.

霍普金：所以，冷冻轮虫的先前记录是十年左右。

In fact, these little ladies reproduce asexually, laying eggs that hatch into the next generation of self-propagating rotifers.

霍普金：事实上，这些小雌性进行无性繁，产卵孵化出下代的自繁轮虫。

First Paradileptus immobilizes the rotifer with fired toxicysts and the animal is swallowed by the single-celled organism as it swims away.

首先，Paradileptus 用发射的毒囊固定住轮虫，当它游走时，轮虫被单细胞物吞噬。