Evolutionary ecotoxicology with Daphnia: genomic, transcriptomic and physiological mechanisms of tolerance and adaptation to cadmium and cyanobacterial stress

The aim of this research is to mechanistically understand (1) the adaptation to Cd stress in natural North-American Daphnia pulex populations living in metal-contaminated lakes at the genomic, transcriptomic and physiological level, (2) to investigate the cross-tolerance of Cd-adapted populations to cyanobacterial stress, and (3) to validate our findings with a European water flea species, Daphnia magna.