Assertion: giant clam's algae | /r/HasProperty | zooxanthellae
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text: To make up for this deficiency, hermatypic corals shelter microscopic algae (zooxanthellae) within their tissues; in exchange, the algae supply the corals with carbohydrates so the corals have enough energy to build reefs.
text: All giant clams also contain microscopic algae, known as zooxanthellae, in their mantles.
text: Additional nutrients are gained from a symbiotic relationship with a tiny algae called zooxanthellae.
text: The creature's mantle tissues act as a habitat for the symbiotic single-celled dinoflagellate algae (zooxanthellae) from which the adult clams get most of their nutrition.
text: Omnivore - Nutrition is obtained through filter-feeding of phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus along with lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Because they depend on symbiotic photosynthetic algae, zooxanthellae, they cannot live where light does not penetrate.
text: Omnivore - Nutrition is obtained through filter-feeding of phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus along with lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Omnivore - Nutrition is obtained through filter-feeding of phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus along with lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Omnivore - Nutrition is obtained through filter-feeding of phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus along with lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: The creature's mantle tissues act as a habitat for the symbiotic single-celled dinoflagellate algae (zooxanthellae) from which the adult clams get most of their nutrition.
text: Omnivore - Nutrition is obtained through filter-feeding of phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus along with lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: Some of Diet - Most food comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Some of Diet - Most food comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Omnivore - Nutrition is obtained through filter-feeding of phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus along with lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: Lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae, make up the rest of the food.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: The rest comes from lighting and the marine algae, zooxanthellae.
text: The creature's mantle tissues act as a habitat for the symbiotic single-celled dinoflagellate algae (zooxanthellae) from which the adult clams get most of their nutrition.
text: Most clams fulfill their nutritional requirements by filter feeding and absorbing dissolved organic compounds from the water, but Tridacna clams have gone further than this by using symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae, in their tissues to manufacture food for them.
text: They live in symbiosis with photosynthetic algae (zooxanthellae).
text: Giant clams live in symbiosis with the photos ynthetic algae (zooxanthellae) that live in
text: However, it does not need to filter-feed as much as other clams since it obtains most of the nutrients it requires from tiny photosynthetic algae known as zooxanthellae.
text: They host food-making algae known as zooxanthellae, serve as food for predatory crabs, lobsters, and even their spawn and faeces attract opportunistic feeders and scavengers such as small snails, crabs and lobsters.