[Coral-List] sea anemone tentacles, venoms, sponges eat surgar
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 21:28:17 UTC 2020
When these sea anemones eat, it goes straight to their arms. They're the
first animals known to turn food into extra limbs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/science/sea-anemones-arms.html
Feeding-dependent tentacle development in the sea anemone Nematostella
vectensis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18133-0
A sea anemone's venom can change over the course of its life.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sea-anemone-venom-change
Dynamics of venom composition across a complex life cycle
https://elifesciences.org/articles/35014
Seawater is filled with a sugary feast. Here's how sponges eat it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/science/sponges-ocean-sugars.html
Single-cell visualization indicates direct role of sponge host in uptake of
dissolved organic matter.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.2153
Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
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NOAA Fisheries Service
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