Sentences with phrase «in sessile»
This would be consistent with the coevolution of cooperation and dispersal more generally, either via movement in motile organisms or passive transport in sessile species, which has been well - explored [74 — 80].
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In other research, Miller and fellow MSI research biologist Mark Page used stable isotopes to determine that suspension - feeding sessile organisms subsist on phytoplankton rather than kelp detritus.
In turn, giant kelp positively affected the sessile invertebrates — sponges and sea squirts — that live on the bottom but can often be outcompeted for space by algae.»
«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).
But, with the exception of bottom - feeding fish and sessile (immobile) filter feeders caught in the immediate vicinity, any radionuclides from Fukushima have been diluted by the vastness of the Pacific to insignificant quantities.
Plants are sessile organisms living in complex environments in which they are continuously exposed to a broad range of microbial pathogens.
«Specifically, we were interested in «sessile serrated polyps», which have only recently been recognized as important colon cancer precursors that give rise to 20 - 30 percent of sporadic colon cancer cases.
In other words, they are not nearly sessile enough for coral lovers.
[10][11] Numerous sessile animals (sponges, bryozoans and ascidians) are found on kelp stipes and mobile invertebrate fauna are found in high densities on epiphytic algae on the kelp stipes and on kelp holdfasts.
In and around this vibrant sessile tableau live all sorts of sea - life, making night diving here simply awesome.
Riftia lacks (as an adult) a mouth and gut, is sessile, and has acquired a chemosynthetic partner — all traits that enable Riftia to thrive in what seems to be an inconceivably hostile environment.
Interestingly, the sessile (i.e., attached to substrate) feeding stage of S. pandora had been known since the 1960s, but was not described until 1995 (Funch and Kristensen 1997, cited in Kristensen 2002).
In the seas it reduced the percentage of sessile animals by about 67 %.