The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee ... which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s tentacles, getting ...
Combing through coffee table books on sea life, his eye landed on a ... Of the roughly thousand species of anemones, only ten host clownfish. It's still a mystery exactly how a clownfish avoids ...
Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten by a barracuda. Nemo hatches as an undifferentiated hermaphrodite (as all clownfish ...
The starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) has impressive regenerative abilities, allowing it to grow a new head or foot if cut off. If sliced in half, each piece turns into a complete anemone.
Researchers discovered that starlet sea anemones reshape their entire bodies during regeneration to maintain their original proportions. Using spatial transcriptomics, the team identified enzymes ...