Sentences with phrase «of tubeworms»

The vents have been colonized by dense communities of tubeworms and other animals unlike any other known vent communities in the in the eastern Pacific.

It appears that these copepods feed directly on the flesh of the tubeworm.

(In fact, there were communities of chemosynthetic bacteria and a kind of tubeworm living at all the methane seeps they visited.)

Not exact matches

These vents have been colonized by the largest and densest colonies of Oasisia alvinae tubeworms ever observed.

Strawberry Fields is named after a colony of red - plumed tubeworms that live on it.

These seeps support an entirely different community of animals, including anemones, tubeworms in the genera Lamellibrachia and Escarpia, and broad, white mats of bacteria.

One thing that all of these communities have in common is that the dominant tubeworms and clams host specialized intracellular bacteria (symbionts) that allow these animals to exploit potentially toxic chemicals in the vent fluids as sources of nutrition.

The discovery gives wider insights into future research on the mechanisms of symbiosis in other marine organisms such as giant tubeworms and giant clams.

The general mechanisms of symbiosis revealed in the study are of relevance to other symbiotic organisms such as deep - sea tubeworms and giant clams.»

A hull that is left in the water all year, especially in warm waters, attracts a living zoo of barnacles, tubeworms, freshwater zebra mussels and other wildlife.

«After about three weeks I started to notice that there were barnacles and tubeworms growing on the back side of this tile but not where I had treated it.»

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.

Glover hypothesizes that young, prehistoric tubeworms may have been traveling from one deep - sea vent to another when they came across the carcass of a marine animal.

Compared to them, tubeworms (and us humans), live and die in the blink of an eye.

A number of other tubeworms and «feather - dusters» also inhabit the vents.

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.

Where clams, mussels, and tubeworms dominate the vents of the Pacific, another group of organisms, the «blind» shrimp, dominate the vents of the mid-Atlantic Ridge.

This mystery of the deep was solved by a graduate student at Harvard University, Colleen Cavanaugh, who relates the story of jumping up in class and shouting that she figured out how the tubeworms make their living.

Thus, a food web is established, consisting of primary producers (chemoautotrophic sulfur bacteria), the secondary producers (tubeworms, mussels, clams, shrimp), and predators (fishes) or detritivores (crabs).

Most certainly, the blood - red hemoglobin that fill the tubeworm's cardiovascular system and is so highly visible as the red gill - like polyps that extend from its tube is important in the transport of sulfur and oxygen.

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.

In organized communities around the bases of these vents, called black smokers, scientists found clams, crabs and exotic, giant tubeworms measuring 6 feet (2 meters) long.

You'll also find a large assortment of algae, mollusks, jellyfish, tubeworms, sea grasses and sponges.