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School
of spottail
grunt, Isla Espiritu Santo
Aquatic
plants, Isla San Pedro Martir
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It
has long been thought that comb jellies eliminated
waste like jellyfish, sea sponges, and sea anemones:
through their mouth. Evolutionary biologist
William Browne of the University of Miami in Florida
showed videos at a March meeting that shows
otherwise. Ctenophores have a pore for
pooping.
The exchange of nutrients and signalling
molecules between a planktonic alga and a bacterium
demonstrates mutualistic interactions in the oceans.
- Limardo, A. J.,
Worden, A. Z. (2015), Microbiology:
Exclusive networks in the sea. Nature
522,
36-37. doi:10.1038/nature14530. See also Letter
by Amin et al.
- The
fast track to rifts and ruptures in the gulf:
- Umhoefer,
P. J. (2011), Why
did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so
rapidly?—Oblique divergence across hot, weak
lithosphere along a tectonically active margin.
GSA Today 21,
4-10. doi:10.1130/G133A.1
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