Some insights into how barnacles survive as sessile organisms

Title: Some insights into how barnacles survive as sessile organisms
Creator: Buckeridge, John; Reeves, Jessica
Date: 2009
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/74508
Identifier: vital:7264
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-4877.2009.00145.x
Identifier: ISSN:1749-4877
Abstract: During routine chemical analyses of the stalked ibliform barnacle Chaetolepas calcitergum Buckeridge & Newman 2006, peaks of more than 7% (by dry mass) of bromine were detected. Although bromine ions occur in seawater (up to 66 ppm), this level of accumulation, in the soft tissue of the barnacle, is extraordinary. Organic concentration of bromine compounds occurs in a number of invertebrates, such as algae and sponges, but this is the first record of elevated bromine in goose barnacles. The high accumulation of bromine compound(s) is most likely a defense mechanism. The present paper includes a review of the mechanisms deployed by barnacles to repel predators.; C1
Relation: Integrative zoology Vol. 4, no. 4 (December 2009 2009), p. 395-401
Rights: No open access
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Bromine; Chaetolepas calcitergum; Cirripedia; Defense mechanisms; Ibliformes; 0608 Zoology
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