Seafloor animal cued to settle, transformed by a bacterial compound - EurekAlert

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa researchers revealed that a large, complex molecule, called lipopolysaccharide, produced by bacteria is responsible for inducing larval mari…

image: An adult worm, in its tube, with its plume of tentacles extendedview more  Credit: Freckelton, et al. 2022 Most bottom-dwelling marine invertebrate animals, such as sponges, corals, worms an… [+4405 chars]

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