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

这意味着一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。

So this little rotifer shows us something really amazing.

这小小轮虫展示了一种神奇的可能。

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

与此同时，蛭形轮虫已孤了近 6000 万年。

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

如果你想要小一点的，还有轮虫和其他种类的......原动物。

They can be found all over the world, but you could have all the bdelloid rotifer experts in the world to dinner and not have to borrow plates from the neighbors.

吸世界各地都有，但你可以请世界上所有的吸专家到家里吃饭，而用不着向邻居借盘子。

Above the size of L rotifers, however, farmers switch phylum and feed their charges crustaceans called brine shrimps, the smallest of which clock in at 400 microns.

然而，L号轮虫再往上，农民们换了门，用一种被称为“盐水虾”的甲壳类动物喂食，最小的盐水虾长度有400。

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.

最小的鱼苗通常会喂食轮虫，轮虫是17世纪晚期由早期显镜学家发现的一门小动物。

You remember the rotifer we just met?

你还记得我们刚认识的轮虫吗？

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

提醒一下，轮虫有一个简单的大脑和一个简单的神系统。

And we heard from a Guardian reader here in Canada who made a passionate pitch for the underrated Deloitte rotifer.

我们收到了一位加拿大《卫报》读者热情洋溢的来信，为被低估的德勤轮虫进行了有力的辩护。

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了一些非常惊人的东西。

Rotifers are better—or at least more interesting—because they're multicellular animals, with a head and a body, that can eat, crawl around and make more rotifers.

霍普金：轮虫更好，或者至少更有趣，因为它们是多细胞动物，有头和身体，可以吃东西、爬行并产更多轮虫。

That's why we are going to study proteins that help rotifers to survive in those conditions.

马拉 vin：这就是为什么我们要研究帮助轮虫在那些条件下存的蛋白质。

But there are other fierce predators like rotifers or arthropods in the  depths, hunting immortal microbes.

但在深处， 还有其他凶猛的捕食者， 如轮虫或节肢动物，猎杀着这些永的物。

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。

It's a microscopic worm called a rotifer that was brought back to life after spending about 25,000 years locked in the arctic permafrost.

这是一条名为轮虫的观蠕虫，在被封存在北极永久冻土中约25000年后被复活了。

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

霍金斯：所以，之前轮虫冷冻的最长记录是大约十年左右。

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

但是鸡蛋和轮虫都无法逃脱这一点。

Rotifers are better—or at least more interesting—because they're multicellular animals, with a head and a body, that can eat, crawl around and make more rotifers.

霍金斯：轮虫更好——或者至少更有趣——因为它们是多细胞动物，有头部和身体， 能够进食、爬行并繁更多轮虫。