Planktonic

Coccolithophores, diatoms, zooplankton, and other planktonic life-forms on much of the ocean’s sunlit surface.

One is that forams’ struggles could be indicative of the plight of other planktonic species.

Across these three distributions, trace metals have different residence times and are used to varying extents by planktonic microorganisms.

All species also flick larger particles towards the mouth with a tentacle, and a few capture zooplankton (planktonic animals) by using their tentacles as cages.

Although many techniques have developed to identify planktonic bacteria in viable wounds, few have been able to quickly and accurately identify bacterial biofilms.

Appearance and extinction of planktonic diatoms during the past 18 m.y. in the Pacific and Southern oceans.

Biofilm grown S. mutans cells are genetically transformed at a rate 10- to 600-fold higher than S. mutans growing as free-floating planktonic cells suspended in liquid.

Dispersed cells are found to be highly virulent against macrophages and Caenorhabditis elegans, but highly sensitive towards iron stress, as compared with planktonic cells.

Diversity and biogeochemical function of planktonic fungi in the ocean.

Ecology A budget of the ocean's silicon cycle citation Regions of high abundance of Diatoms in the ocean Planktonic diatoms in freshwater and marine environments typically exhibit a " boom and bust " (or "bloom and bust") lifestyle.

Gelatinous planktonic animals are between 50 and 90 percent transparent.

In the Cambrian, their global distribution shows no sign of provinciality, suggesting a long-lived planktonic larval life stage; but by the Ordovician distinct assemblages were becoming evident.

Sea lice are ectoparasites which feed on mucus, blood, and skin, and migrate and latch onto the skin of wild salmon during free-swimming, planktonic nauplii and copepodid larval stages, which can persist for several days.

That may have killed land plants and molluscs and planktonic organisms which had calcium carbonate shells.

The eggs are planktonic and hatch between eight and 23 days, with larva reaching convert in length.

The length of the planktonic stage varies between different types of flatfishes, but eventually they begin to metamorphose into the adult form.

These species belong to four of the major classes of echinoderms except crinozoans (as of 2011). citation Asexual reproduction in the planktonic larvae occurs through numerous modes.

They are generally herbivorous, citation entangling planktonic food through a mucous web that can be up to 5 cm wide, many times larger than themselves.

This is especially common in cold water species where planktonic larvae might not be able to find sufficient food.

This planktonic phase lasts some ten weeks, enabling the young cod to increase its body weight by 40-fold, and growing to about convert.