Thursday 28 February 2013

Clownfish wiggling helps anemones breathe at night

Clownfish

Red Sea clownfish help the sea anemones in which they live to breath more easily at night by wiggling their fins and burrowing about in the anemone's tentacles.


The level of oxygen available after sunset falls considerably as plants on coral reefs are no longer able to photosynthesise. Previous research has found that some reef-dwelling organisms have struck up respiration-based partnerships -- damselfish waft oxygen-rich water over corals at night -- but no studies had investigated how anemones coped with the oxygen crash.


By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/28/clownfish-oxygenate-sea-anemones

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