At all developmental stages sand dollars exhibit higher relative activities of p-gp activity than sea urchins. |
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The types of seafood they eat include mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, lobsters, abalone, and sea urchins. |
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Growth on the hull of the wreck consists largely of small shells with grazing sea urchins and starfish. |
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The intertidal zone supplies fishermen with surf perch, cabezons, blennies, rock fish, pricklebacks, mussels and sea urchins. |
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The ocean surrounding Australia is home to several species of sea urchins, which form elaborate exoskeletons made from carbonate minerals. |
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Common food items are small crustaceans, worms, brittlestars, sea urchins, and snails. |
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They had oysters, sea urchins, conch shells, tulip shells, starfish, and crabs either attached or living on them. |
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Divers have to look out for the barnacle covered surfaces and sea urchins as they explore the various levels of the King Cruiser. |
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The elimination of sea otters for their pelts allowed explosions of sea urchins that ate all the kelps. |
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There were sea anemones, lots of colorful starfish, and even some sea urchins. |
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A few sea urchins brood their eggs in special pouches, but most provide no parental care. |
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Unfortunately, blue gropers and crayfish, both popular species for eating, prey on one such creature, sea urchins. |
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The response to these biofilms was compared to biofilms generated in tanks where other invertebrates but no sea urchins were present. |
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These problems have been well researched for other species, such as abalone, queen conch, and sea urchins. |
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Such ocean acidification could result in damage to coral reefs and other calcareous organisms such as sea urchins. |
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Sometimes otters use rocks to help break open the hard shells of sea urchins and other prey. |
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Green sea urchins, waved whelk, Stimpson's surfclam and snow crab are also found in the sector. |
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Barnacles die off, algae continue to spread, and the grazing sea urchins return to feed once again. |
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Once in a while I grabbed scallops, sea urchins, and lobster. |
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Developed eight highly polymorphic microsatelllite loci for Dungeness crab, goeduck clams and red sea urchins. |
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The crew continued manually hoisting the remaining product bags of sea urchins aboard. |
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The spatangoids are heart-shaped sea urchins that feed on mud or are microphages. |
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The phylum Echinodermata comprises the starfishes, sea urchins, and their relatives. |
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Crinoids are marine invertebrates, classified in the echinoderm family, in which we find in particular sea urchins and starfishes. |
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To withstand hydrodynamic forces, sea urchins rely on their adoral tube feet, which are specialized for attachment. |
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When the workers took a break, they presented their visitors with a late breakfast, a pailful of sea urchins fresh out of the ocean. |
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Includes geoduck, intertidal clams, prawns, crab, shrimp, sea urchins, sea cucumber, etc. |
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In places where there are many sea urchins below the kelp zone, the only algae left will be the coralline algal crusts. |
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The important thing is that it is displacing kelp beds and is harmful to sea urchins. |
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This project is evaluating the potential relative growth performance of sea urchins from aquaculture sites compared to nearby reference areas. |
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Prior to the Final Agreement, the Parties will discuss Fish management options respecting sea urchins in the Sliammon Domestic Fishing Area. |
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Echinoderms or 'spiny skins' include sea stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and sand dollars. |
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The Greek diet also includes a wide variety of crustaceans, sea urchins being a particular favourite. |
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Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding. |
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Echinoids are one of the more diverse and successful echinoderm groups today, including familiar echinoderms such as the sea urchins and sand dollars. |
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Shake the crab harder, and you may dislodge tiny sea stars feeding on oysters and mussels, or sea urchins scavenging for seaweed and sedentary invertebrates. |
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Red sea urchins are found in the Pacific Ocean, from the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Baja California in the east, and in the west, from Siberia to the northern reaches of Japan. |
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Consequently, over-fishing is unlikely to occur as sea urchins are known to exist in a wide range of depths, but divers can only access the shallowest areas. |
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Crinoids belong to the class of echinoderms, as do sea urchins. |
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North Pacific areas that do not have sea otters often turn into urchin barrens, with abundant sea urchins and no kelp forest. |
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The pericentriolar radial complex characteristic of the spermatozoa of other echinoderms is lacking in the spermatozoa of all sea urchins. |
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Sulfated polysaccharides from the egg jelly layer are species-specific inducers of acrosomal reaction in sperms of sea urchins. |
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Non-eye light-sensing structures or compounds also show up in the tube feet of sea urchins and the body walls of fruit fly larvae. |
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Hunt's key breakthrough about the cell cycle, the discovery cyclins, centred on his experiments with sea urchins and clams in the Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole. |
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In a healthy kelp forest, red sea urchins feed on the abundant algal drift produced by Macrocystis pyriferia and other laminarians. |
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Shallow water-dwelling creatures such as giant sea spiders, sea urchins, and corals face new risks as icebergs tear up the ocean floor. |
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Tags were implanted into the body cavity of the sea urchins through the peristomial membrane. |
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The exceptional soil is clayey for the most part, which is quite typical of Saint-Estèphe. It is also full of fossilised cockleshells and sea urchins. |
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Acorn worms are themselves part of the hemichordates, a group of marine animals closely related to today's sea stars and sea urchins. |
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This is entirely absent in sea urchins, which are unable to move in this way. |
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Some believe the trigger's preference for sand dollars and sea urchins may contribute to its uniquely delicious flavor, but more on that later. |
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Spiny sea urchins may be the bane of salt-water divers and swimmers but off the eastern shore of Nova Scotia they are now coveted as 'found money' by struggling coastal fisheries. |
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Some of the animals you might choose to investigate could include sea stars, sea urchins, slipper shells, Blue Mussels, periwinkles, sea anemones, Dogwinkles, amphipods, isopods, Green Crabs or hermit crabs. |
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There are schools of bamboofish, damselfish, dories and many small creatures such as small snails, young sea urchins, sea cucumbers and sea stars. |
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The solution was a calculated series of steps to develop strategies and protocols to shepherd sea urchins onto identifiable and thriving sea kelp beds. |
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In very cold winters, marine life is washed up on shore, including sea urchins, razor shells, mussels and cockles. |
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A simple but ingenious method of increasing the roe content of sea urchins harvested in controlled conditions from October to April has increased the commercial value of stock by as much as five times. |
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The ridleys also like to eat fish, sea urchins, squid and jellyfish. |
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Aristotle's lantern is actually referring to the whole shape of sea urchins, which look like the ancient lamps of Aristotle's time. |
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This was his first time harvesting sea urchins in this area. |
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When they lack food, sea urchins actually grow smaller. |
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Echinoderms include sea stars and sea urchins. |
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With its prominent, canine-like teeth in the front of its jaws, the striped wolffish preys mainly on other bottom-dwelling creatures such as sea urchins, starfish, shellfish and molluscs. |
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Sea horses, star fish, sea urchins and sea cucumber are used in traditional Chinese medicine. |
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It is colonised by marine life, with a dense carpet of plumose anemones, sea urchins and brittle stars. |
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Sea otters, starfish, wolf eels, triggerfish, and other predators hunt and feed on sea urchins. |
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Some families of tropical sea urchins are known to have venomous spines, like Diadematidae and Echinothuriidae. |
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Despite the names, the small and large intestines of sea urchins are in no way homologous to the similarly named structures in vertebrates. |
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Most sea urchins possess five pairs of external gills, located around their mouths. |
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The gonads of both male and female sea urchins, usually called sea urchin roe or corals, are culinary delicacies in many parts of the world. |
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Examples of meroplankton include the larvae of sea urchins, starfish, crustaceans, marine worms, and most fish. |
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Among the fossils it contains are sea urchins, belemnites, ammonites and sea reptiles such as Mosasaurus. |
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Snorkelers might spy sea urchins, octopuses, sea cucumbers, starfish, moon snails, wavy-top snails, clams, perhaps even sand dollars and pipe fish. |
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Unlike in sea stars and sea urchins, annelids are not typical parasites. |
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Barnacles, dog whelks, brittle stars, sculpins and sea urchins. |
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Several sea urchins, however, including the sand dollars, are oval in shape, with distinct front and rear ends, giving them a degree of bilateral symmetry. |
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Native Americans in California are also known to eat sea urchins. |
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Indeed, very small sea urchins are found hiding beneath rocks. |
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Regular sea urchins have five gonads, lying underneath the interambulacral regions of the test, while the irregular forms have only four, with the hindmost gonad being absent. |
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Home to the pretty cuckoo wrasse, the fearsome-looking wolf fish, deeplet sea anemones, light bulb sea squirts, edible sea urchins and bottle brush hydroids. |
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Among the dishes on the menu are white asparagus with virgin olive oil capsules and lemon marshmallow and lamb's brains with sea urchins and sea grape. |
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The nervous system of sea urchins has a relatively simple layout. |
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Sea urchin injuries are caused by contact with sea urchins, and are characterized by puncture wounds inflicted by the animal's brittle, fragile spines. |
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At first glance, sea urchins often appear incapable of moving. |
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Sea urchin puncture wounds are a common source of injury to ocean swimmers, especially along coastal surfaces where coral with stationary sea urchins are present. |
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This limestone is rich in fossils, particularly of fossilised sea urchins. |
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Sea otters are hunters of clams, sea urchins and other shelled creatures. |
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