Seeing clownfish darting among the tentacled folds of an anemone is like watching butterflies flitting around a flowering plant in a breeze-blown meadow—mesmerizing. Twenty-nine species of ...

Among other things, it highlighted the symbiotic relationship between clownfish and their sea anemone hosts — where the anemone’s sting protects the fish from predators, and in return, the fish help ...

As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten ...

They form another, more famous symbiotic alliance with clownfish, which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s ...

Clownfish Make Up for a Lack of Resources for Their Anemone It was previously known that anemones offer fish a safe space, for which they then defend the flower animal accordingly. However, a ...

A research team observing anemonefish in the field found they engage in interesting feeding behavior with their host sea anemones. Anemonefish, sometimes called clownfish, have been popular ...

A new article expands our understanding of sensory neurons in the tentacles of sea anemones, linking them to kidney disease in humans through a common gene. Biological sciences researchers from ...

Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten by a barracuda. Nemo hatches as an undifferentiated hermaphrodite (as all clownfish ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Research has identified a link between the PKD-1 gene, associated with human kidney disease, and mechanosensory hair cells in sea anemones. This gene enables ...