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''Artemia franciscana'' is a species of
brine shrimp ''Artemia'' is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp or ''Sea-Monkeys, sea monkeys''. It is the only genus in the Family (biology), family Artemiidae. The first historical record of the existence of ''Artemia'' dates back to t ...
endemic to the Americas but now widely introduced throughout the tropics and temperate zones worldwide. Several late embryogenesis abundant proteins have been identified in this species. See Menze ''et al.'', 2009, Sharon ''et al.'', 2009, Hand ''et al.'', 2007 and Chen ''et al.'', 2009 for LEA proteins in ''A. franciscana''.


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"Artemia franciscana", C. Drewes (updated, 2002), Iowa State University.
Anostraca Animals described in 1906 {{branchiopoda-stub