In this week's issue of Science,
marine ecologists describe a partnership among seagrasses, lucinid clams, and bacteria living in the clams that likely keeps toxic sediments from building up and killing the seagrass.
On page 1432 of this week's issue of Science,
marine ecologists describe a three - way partnership — between seagrasses, lucinid clams, and bacteria living in the clams — that likely keeps toxic sediments from building up and killing the seagrass.
Not exact matches
Last fall
marine ecologist Vincent Zintzen of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa published a study
describing the first - ever observations of hagfish exploiting those glands to ward off predators.
Malin Pinsky, an
ecologist at Rutgers University who studies population dynamics of coastal
marine species and who was not involved in the research,
described the study as significant because of its unusually large scope, as well as its focus on different fish life stages.