| Using cyst material produced in an indoor cyst production system from 4 <i>Artemia</i> strains belonging to the species <i>A. franciscana</i> (San Francisco Bay, California, USA; Macau, Brazil; Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA) and <i>A. parthenogenetica</i> (Lavalduc, France), different factors were studied that affect dormancy in brine shrimp cysts. Preliminary experiments under varying (a)biotic culture conditions revealed an interaction between environmental conditions and hatching characteristics. Results obtained under better-defined conditions demonstrated a significant positive correlation between the amount of food available to the adult <i>Artemia</i> populations and the hatchability of their encysted... |
