Shining a light on tiny, solar-powered animals
Animals and plants need energy. Some animals get energy by eating other animals, and many plants harvest the energy in sunlight through photosynthesis. However, in the ocean, there exists a remarkable group of small, worm-like animals called acoels that do both; some acoels form relationships (symbiosis) with single-celled, photosynthetic microalgae.
Shining a light on tiny, solar-powered #animals https://phys.org/news/2023-10-tiny-solar-powered-animals.html
#Biodiversity of symbiotic #microalgae associated with #meiofauna marine acoels in Southern Japan https://peerj.com/articles/16078/
"#Acoels are superficially simple. However, this is misleading... Acoels interest #biologists in the fields of evolutionary #biology, regenerative biology, and #neurobiology. Some acoels also form #symbiotic relationships with #algae."
Shining a light on tiny, solar-powered animals
Animals and plants need energy. Some animals get energy by eating other animals, and many plants harvest the energy in sunlight through photosynthesis. However, in the ocean, there exists a remarkable group of small, worm-like animals called acoels that do both; some acoels form relationships (symbiosis) with single-celled, photosynthetic microalgae.
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