Once they become infectious, the larvae exit the snail and reenter the water. These free-swimming larvae can invade humans and many other mammals through their skin. The larvae then enter the host’s ...

Adult corals release free-swimming larvae as one means of propagating the next generation. Here are two larvae of Pocillopora damicornis, the coral species that Rivest and colleagues used in their ...

with larvae assumed to be transported through bottom, ridge, and ocean currents before they settle at vents through downward ...

The researchers exposed shellfish larvae to chemically manipulated seawater in the lab and tracked the effects of falling saturation state on their growth. They found that if water was too acidic, the ...

These bacterial metamorphosis-associated contractile structures, or MACs, form an organized extracellular array that is required for the switch from free-swimming larva to anchored juvenile tubeworm.

The free swimming larvae will eventually leave the mass and begin to feed on the plankton. The parasite sacculina is also discussed. This member of the barnacle family attaches itself to crabs ...