Example sentences for: tubeworms

How can you use “tubeworms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • accounts for the presence and longevity of these extraordinary tubeworms, and possibly also other chemosynthetic symbioses, forming some of the most fascinating marine ecosystems at continental margins.

  • Some pogonophoran tubeworms at seeps have teamed with methane-oxidizing symbionts to profit from the high availability of hydrocarbons, but seep vestimentiferans do not appear to be able to directly tap this resource.

  • With their strange morphology, vent tubeworms were first classified as a novel phylum, Vestimentifera [3].

  • At some seeps the vestimentiferan tubeworms are so abundant that they form a special habitat that is attractive for a host of other marine species [9].

  • All vestimentiferan tubeworms found today at vents, seeps, and a few other reduced submarine habitats harbor sulfide-oxidizing endosymbionts in their trophosome.


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