Marine benthic communities are dominated by suspension feeders, including those actively
pum** water, passively encountering particles, or some combination of the two. The …

Phenotypic plasticity of the penis and cirri of acorn barnacles is well documented for
intertidal species. We investigated whether these phenomena also occur in the epizoic sea …

Animals can shift their reliance on different sensory modalities in response to environmental
conditions, and knowing the degree to which traits are reversible may help us to predict their …

The striped acorn barnacle, Amphibalanus amphitrite, a taxon of Balanidae, is commonly
found along Thailand's coastline. In this study, we used histological methods to describe the …

Barnacle feeding and respiration depend on the activity of feeding appendages known as
cirri. We measured the oxygen consumption of individuals of the acorn barnacle Balanus …

Most barnacles are sessile, simultaneous hermaphrodites that reproduce by copulation. This
is achieved through the extension of a muscular penis, famous for being the proportionally …

Examples of morphological plasticity now exist across a wide range of taxa and
experimental systems. Much of what we know about such plasticity comes from field and …

Exposure to wave action and other environmental factors can alter the morphology of
intertidal barnacles. We tested several hypotheses on the causes of morphological variation …

We evaluated density-dependent morphological variation in exoskeletal structures
associated with feeding and reproduction in the intertidal cirripede Jehlius cirratus in Metri …

This research addresses the knowledge gap of phenotypic plasticity in a commonly found
and important species of epizoic barnacle, Chelonibia testudinaria. Limited research has …