TITLE:
Particles Assembling and Fluid Dynamic Features Lend to Daphnia’s Feeding Mechanism: A Commentary Review
AUTHORS:
Moshe Gophen
KEYWORDS:
Daphnia, Feeding, Filtration, Assembling, Evolutionary Advantage
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ecology,
Vol.16 No.3,
March
11,
2026
ABSTRACT: Since the early 1920’s, the feeding mechanism of Daphnia has been defined as a sieving action. The use of cinematographic methodology and fluid dynamics analyses confirmed a historical turning point from sieving to an assembly mechanism. Filtration and capillarity were dismissed, whereas fluid dynamics principles supported the assembly hypothesis.