New paper on sea anemone movement in response to environmental stress

Congratulations to Samuel Bedgood, whose undergrad thesis research on movement in sea anemones was just published in Marine Biology! In this paper, Samuel describes how food availability and temperature-induced changes in symbiont density in the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana influence crawling behavior, detachment from the substratum and reattachment in a new location, and increased production of mobile asexual clones. The ability to disperse as adult could provide this species – typically thought of as sedentary – an advantage as environmental conditions change. (Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nashworld/)