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虫突变系不会被有性繁的基因混合所稀释。

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

与此同时，蛭形虫已经孤雌生了近 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，还有虫和其他种类的......原生动物。

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一次通过显看到虫一样。

So this little rotifer shows us something really amazing.

这小小虫展示了一种神奇的可能。

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米。

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虫，虫是17世纪晚期由早期显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虫吗？

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

提醒一下，虫有一个简单的大脑和一个简单的神经系统。

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：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、爬行并产生更多虫。

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生物，它们被称为虫。

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虫在那些条件下生存的蛋白质。

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， 如虫或节肢动物，猎杀着这些永生的生物。

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，之前虫冷冻的最长记录是大约十年左右。

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

每次，Stentor 都会自我修复，而虫永远无法逃脱。