• Lar­val Set­tle­ment

    by Roberto — An­i­mals orig­i­nate, evolve, and un­dergo de­vel­op­ment in a mi­cro­bial world. A beau­ti­ful ex­am­ple of how an­i­mal de­vel­op­ment is guided by bac­te­r­ial chem­i­cal cues is the meta­mor­pho­sis of the bot­tom dwelling ma­rine worm Hy­droides el­e­gans.

  • The Tale of a Tube­worm and a Biofilm

    by Jor­dan Kesner, Bryan Han­cock, and Nicole Nal­ban­dian — The oceans of our world har­bor an in­cred­i­ble di­ver­sity of life, the vast ma­jor­ity of which has yet to be ob­served or char­ac­ter­ized. This is part of what makes the study of ma­rine bi­ol­ogy so ex­cit­ing; there is, in essence, an end­less sea of new and ex­cit­ing un­der­wa­ter dis­cov­er­ies to...