Sentences with phrase «tubeworms in»

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

The «black smoker» chimneys are often colonized by giant tubeworms in the genus Riftia, which grow over two meters (six feet) long, as well as limpets, crabs, squat lobsters, and Alvinella palmworms.

Not exact matches

The dominant tubeworms (genus Oasisia) are not common elsewhere in the Gulf.

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.

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.

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.»

In the hot - house tubeworm, new cells persist, enabling the worm to grow fast, but as these long - lasting cells age, they seem to shorten the giant tubeworm's lifespan, she adds.

If both species have such rapid DNA production, they should both grow fast, but they don't because cells in the cold seep worm die much faster than in the giant tubeworm, Pflugfelder says.

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.

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.

While a 300 - year - old tubeworm sounds impressive, it wouldn't be the longest living organism on Earth, or even in the sea.

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

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.

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.

Like the giant tubeworm, the mussels have symbiotic bacteria, but these bacteria are contained in the mussel's gills.

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.

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

Among the most remarkable species found near the vents were striking pale octopuses, yeti crabs, snails, and barnacles; absent were the tubeworms, vent crabs, mussels and shrimp commonly found near underwater vents in the Pacific.