Sentence examples for sessile from inspiring English sources

This is serious because such sessile creatures are not merely part of the ecosystem.

Freshwater bivalves are sessile filter feeders (see filter feeding) and very sensitive to changes in water quality.

A free-swimming tunicate larva metamorphoses into an attached, sessile adult with an atrium that surrounds the gills.

The major neuroendocrine control centre of malacostracans is the X-organ sinus-gland compleX-organ sinus-glande eyestalk or in an equivalent part of the head in which the eyes are sessile.

The inflorescences are nodding or erect and usually feature two or more sessile flowers per node.

A third advantage of a larval stage emerges in animals whose adult stages are sessile or restricted in their movements; the larvae can move freely, either of their own accord or on water currents.

Chemical defenses of sessile organisms also can deter the growth or cause increased mortality of organisms that settle on them.

Free-swimming tunicates are found throughout the oceans as plankton, while sessile forms grow mainly on solid surfaces such as wharf piles, ship hulls, rocks, and the shells of various sea creatures.

Despite their sessile lifestyles, some adult ascidians can move by attaching with one area of the body and letting go with another.

Some solitary, sessile ascidians are stalked, and budding commonly occurs by growth at the base of the animal.

Ovaries are located in the stalk of pedunculate barnacles and its homologue or in the basal lining of the mantle cavity in sessile barnacles.