Editing Rotifer (section)

===Resting eggs===
Resting eggs enclose an embryo encysted in a three-layered shell that protects it from external stressors.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wurdak |first1=Elizabeth S. |last2=Gilbert |first2=John J. |last3=Jagels |first3=Richard |title=Fine Structure of the Resting Eggs of the Rotifers Brachionus calyciflorus and Asplanchna sieboldi |journal=Transactions of the American Microscopical Society |date=January 1978 |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=49–72 |pmid=564567 |jstor=3225684 |doi=10.2307/3225684 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Clément |first1=P. |last2=Wurdak |first2=E. |year=1991 |chapter=Rotifera |editor1-last=Harrison |editor1-first=F.W. |editor2-last=Ruppert |editor2-first=E.E. |title=Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates |series=Aschelminthes, vol. IV |publisher=Wiley-Liss |pages=219–97 }}</ref> They are able to remain dormant for several decades and can resist adverse periods (e.g., pond desiccation or presence of antagonists).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marcus |first1=Nancy H. |last2=Lutz |first2=Robert |last3=Burnett |first3=William |last4=Cable |first4=Peter |title=Age, viability, and vertical distribution of zooplankton resting eggs from an anoxic basin: Evidence of an egg bank |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |date=January 1994 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=154–158 |doi=10.4319/lo.1994.39.1.0154 |bibcode=1994LimOc..39..154M |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-94-010-0756-6_37 |chapter=Reproductive isolation among geographically and temporally isolated marine Brachionus strains |title=Rotifera IX |pages=283–290 |year=2001 |last1=Kotani |first1=T. |last2=Ozaki |first2=M. |last3=Matsuoka |first3=K. |last4=Snell |first4=T. W. |last5=Hagiwara |first5=A. |isbn=978-94-010-3820-1 }}</ref> When favourable conditions return and after an obligatory period of [[diapause]] which varies among species, resting eggs hatch releasing diploid amictic females that enter into the asexual phase of the life cycle.<ref name="Nogrady, T. 1993"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=García-Roger |first1=Eduardo M. |last2=Carmona |first2=María José |last3=Serra |first3=Manuel |title=Deterioration patterns in diapausing egg banks of Brachionus (Müller, 1786) rotifer species |journal=Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology |date=January 2005 |volume=314 |issue=2 |pages=149–161 |doi=10.1016/j.jembe.2004.08.023 |bibcode=2005JEMBE.314..149G }}</ref>