Issue 5, 2017

Finding food: how marine invertebrates use chemical cues to track and select food

Abstract

Benthic marine invertebrates sense molecules from other organisms and use these molecules to find and evaluate the organisms as sources of food. These processes depend on the detection and discrimination of molecules carried in sea water around and in the mouths of these animals. To understand these processes, researchers have studied how molecules released from food distribute in the sea water as a plume, how animals respond to the plume, the molecular identity of the attractants in the plume, the effect of turbulence on food-searching success, and how animals evaluate the quality of food and make decisions to eat or not. This review covers recent progress on this topic involving interdisciplinary studies of natural products chemistry, fluid dynamics, neuroethology, and ecology.

Graphical abstract: Finding food: how marine invertebrates use chemical cues to track and select food

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
07 Dec 2016
First published
20 Feb 2017

Nat. Prod. Rep., 2017,34, 514-528

Finding food: how marine invertebrates use chemical cues to track and select food

M. Kamio and C. D. Derby, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2017, 34, 514 DOI: 10.1039/C6NP00121A

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