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Artemia salina is a species of brine shrimp, primitive, aquatic crustacean that are more closely related to Triops and cladocerans than to true shrimps. They can tolerate fluctuations in the salinity of water — they can live in water having much more or much less salt content than normal seawater. The resilience of these creatures make them ideal test samples in experiments.The females can produce fertilised eggs in parthenogenesis. These eggs can remain in a dormant state, in cysts, for a number of years until they are placed in water.
