FURTHER STUDIES IN THE BEHAVIOR OF COMMENSAL POLYCHAETES
Open Access
- 1 December 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 113 (3) , 397-406
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1539071
Abstract
A new water-table apparatus for the investigation of commensal response behavior is described. Commensal Podarke pugettensis shows a strong response to its host animal, while free-living members of the same species show no such response to the same animals. Podarke commensal with Luidia in Puget Sound shows a less precise response specificity than does Podarke commensal with Patiria in S. California. Evidence is presented that 3 populations of Arctonoe fragilis which inhabit different hosts respond to their respective hosts alone. The specificity of response of Arctonoe vittata is also described.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- Specificity and Behavior in SymbiosesThe Quarterly Review of Biology, 1955
- Studies in the Physiology of Commensalism. IV. the Polynoid Genera Polynoë, Lepidasthenia and HarmothoeJournal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1953
- STUDIES IN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF COMMENSALISM. 2. THE POLYNOID GENERA ARCTONOË AND HALOSYDNAThe Biological Bulletin, 1951
- STUDIES IN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF COMMENSALISMThe Biological Bulletin, 1950