Sentences with phrase «planktonic animal»

I was struck by the similarities between the pasta shapes shown in Richard Webb's article on their mathematical interpretation (15 October, p 48) and some shells of foraminifera, a type of single - celled marine planktonic animal.

When unsuspecting planktonic animals get ensnared in the tentacles of the Ctenophore, the tasty morsel is drawn into the body of the animal for consumption.

Not exact matches

Unlike many populations of animals that undergo genetic changes over numerous generations and improve their camouflage against the environment, sand fleas from the different beaches begin life as a planktonic larval stage and so are likely to come from the same gene pool.

With so little previously known about the larger Pacific striped octopus, the team hopes to continue studying the dietary needs of newly - hatched planktonic larvae to develop a captive breeding protocol and learn more about the animal's full life cycle.

During expeditions from 2009 through 2013, the Tara Oceans scientists sampled viruses, bacteria, protists, and small animals in the upper ocean, ultimately collecting over 35,000 planktonic samples from 210 stations in all the major oceanic regions.

Ecology of marine protists, including adaptation of protists to extreme cold; photosymbiotic associations in planktonic foraminifera and radiolaria; pathogens and parasites of marine animals and humans; antibiotic resistance in marine animals.