Photo of the Week: Featherweight

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	Photo of the Week: Featherweight
	admin
	2017-02-03
发布年	2017
语种	英语
国家	美国
领域	资源环境
正文(英文)	Neither fish nor fowl nor even a plant, there are creatures beneath the sea wonderful to behold. This image of a featherstar (Pontiometra andersoni) was recently shared by Scripps Oceanography marine biologist Greg Rouse, who photographed it off Indonesia. "That specimen was collected as part of our NSF (National Science Foundation) project Assembling the Echinoderm Tree of Life (recently concluded)," Rouse wrote. "We are working on building an evolutionary tree of living crinoids (featherstars and sea lilies) using next-generation technology DNA sequencing. We went to Raja Ampat in Indonesia as this region has a high diversity of featherstars." Featherstars like this are crinoids, marine animals that use their arms to filter particles of food from seawater. Images on Rouse's Instagram feed highlight the variety of featherstars as well as their symbiotic relationships with other creatures, ranging from squat lobsters to cling fish. This story appears in explorations now, Scripps Institution of Oceanography's award-winning ocean and earth science magazine. Sign up to receive our free monthly story roundup.
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来源平台	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
文献类型	新闻
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/107644
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	admin. Photo of the Week: Featherweight. 2017.