Sentences with phrase «for tubeworms»
Not exact matches
Codependency is their MO: They harbor bacteria in their tissue that produce food for them; in turn, the tubeworm absorbs minerals and nutrients that feed the bacteria.
http://discovermagazine.com/
For example, plastic items are commonly colonized by barnacles, tubeworms and algae.
That opens the possibility of the presence of larger life, such as tubeworms and crabs, that had evolved in isolation for thousands of years, Priscu says.
At the moment, scientists have confirmed, using DNA analysis, that snotworms are closely related to the tubeworms that thrive around hydrothermal vents and probably have existed for as long as whales, if not longer.
By means that are not entirely understood, the tubeworm provides all the chemicals necessary for the bacteria to make food, including sulfur, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, and the bacteria manufacture sugars or some other form of energy - rich molecules that provide nutrition to the tubeworm.
Whereas symbiosis is the norm for the Pacific tubeworms and bivalves, the Atlantic vent shrimp appear to scrape bacteria from the debris surrounding a vent.
Three years after its discovery, scientists returned to find mounds of mussels covering the vents, and very few tubeworms, for which Rose Garden was named.