Collaborative Research: Larva-environment Interactions: How Settlement of Marine Larvae Depends on their Responses to Varying Water Flow and Surfaces

最后修改日期：01/21/09最后修改人：Adam P.Summers摘要生长在海面上的动物群落通过稳定地招募动物产生的微小幼虫来起源并维持自己。海绵、文蛤、蜗牛、蠕虫等幼虫在海里游泳不同时期，然后必须在正确的地方定居才能生存、生长和繁殖。通过这种方式，既建立和维持了理想的海洋动物，例如那些对海洋养殖很重要的海洋动物(例如文蛤、牡蛎、虾和龙虾)，也建立和维持了不理想的海洋动物，例如构成船只、码头和发电厂管道上的污垢群落的动物(例如海绵、藤壶、贻贝和管虫)。这项研究将侧重于污垢群落的成员，并提出一些问题，即微小的幼虫如何识别特定的表面要求，并在非常活跃的水运动中定居下来，这种运动是所有海洋栖息地的特征。

Last Modified Date: 01/21/09 Last Modified By: Adam P. Summers Abstract Communities of animals that grow on surfaces in the sea originate and maintain themselves by the steady recruitment of minute larvae produced by animals. The larvae of sponges, clams, snails, worms, etc., swim in the sea for various periods of time and then must settle in the right places to survive, grow and reproduce. In this way, both desired marine animals, such as those important to marine farming (e.g., clams, oysters, shrimp and lobsters) and undesirable ones, such as those that make up the fouling communities on boats, piers, and power plant pipes (e.g., sponges, barnacles, mussels and tube worms) become established and are maintained. This research will focus on members of the fouling community and ask questions about how tiny larvae can recognize specific surface requirements and settle onto them in the kinds of very active water movement that characterize all marine habitats.