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Evidence of Cnidarians sensitivity to sound after exposure to low frequency underwater sources [PDF]

, 2016
Jellyfishes represent a group of species that play an important role in oceans, particularly as a food source for different taxa and as a predator of fish larvae and planktonic prey.
André, Michel, Durfort, Mercè, Fortuño Alós, Jose-Manuel, Lenoir, Marc, Solé Carbonell, Marta, Van der Schaar, Mike Connor Roger Malcolm   +5 more
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Evidence for a genetic sex determination in Cnidaria, the Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum) [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
Sexual reproduction is widespread among eukaryotes, and the sex-determining processes vary greatly among species. While genetic sex determination (GSD) has been intensively described in bilaterian species, no example has yet been recorded among non ...
M. Pratlong, A. Haguenauer, S. Chenesseau, K.  Brener, G. Mitta, E. Toulza, M. Bonabaud, S.  Rialle, D. Aurelle, P. Pontarotti   +9 more
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Expression of Opsins of the Box Jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora Reveals the First Photopigment in Cnidarian Ocelli and Supports the Presence of Photoisomerases

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2022
Cubomedusae, or box jellyfish, have a complex visual system comprising 24 eyes of four types. Like other cnidarians, their photoreceptor cells are ciliary in morphology, and a range of different techniques together show that at least two of the eye types—
Anders Garm, Jens-Erik Svaerke, Daniela Pontieri, Todd H. Oakley   +3 more
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Medusae and ctenophores from the Bahia Blanca Estuary and neighboring inner shelf (Southwest Atlantic Ocean, Argentina) [PDF]

, 2017
An updated checklist of medusae and ctenophores is presented for the first time for the area comprised by the Bahía Blanca Estuary, the adjacent shelf El Rincón and Monte Hermoso beach, on the southwest coast of Buenos Aires province (Argentina).
Dutto, María Sofía, Genzano, Gabriel Nestor, Hoffmeyer, Monica Susana, Lecanda, Maria Julieta, Pratolongo, Paula Daniela, Schiariti, Agustin   +5 more
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A Novel Phospholipase A2 Isolated from Palythoa caribaeorum Possesses Neurotoxic Activity

Toxins, 2019
Zoanthids of the genus Palythoa are distributed worldwide in shallow waters around coral reefs. Like all cnidarians, they possess nematocysts that contain a large diversity of toxins that paralyze their prey.
Miguel Cuevas-Cruz, Fernando Lazcano-Pérez, Ulises Hernández-Guzmán, Karen Helena Díaz de la Vega-Castañeda, Sergio A. Román-González, Norma A. Valdez-Cruz, Benjamín Velasco-Bejarano, Ana Laura Colín-González, Abel Santamaría, Saúl Gómez-Manzo, Jaime Marcial-Quino, Roberto Arreguín-Espinosa   +11 more
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Reflectance Confocal Microscopy of Skin after the Sting of the Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca

Case Reports in Dermatology, 2023
Jellyfish are aquatic animals of the phylum Cnidaria found in seas all over the world. They are characterized by the presence of cnidocytes, cells that contain a secretory organelle, the cnidocyst, mainly used for predation and defense purposes. An adult
Giovanni Paolino, Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola, Riccardo Pampena, Vittoria Giulia Bianchi, Santo Raffaele Mercuri   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA barcoding reveals the coral “laboratory-rat”, Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities [PDF]

, 2013
Stylophora pistillata is a widely used coral “lab-rat” species with highly variable morphology and a broad biogeographic range (Red Sea to western central Pacific).
A Budd, A Schettino, A Valentini, AJ Drummond, C Chen, CA Chen, CA Chen, CC Wallace, CY Chiou, D Darriba, D Huang, D Posada, DJ Combosch, F Stefani, H Akaike, H Fukami, H Fukami, JE Meulenkamp, JF Flot, JF Flot, JH Pinzón, JP Huelsenbeck, K Tamura, KE Carpenter, M Hasegawa, M Medina, O Folmer, O Hoegh-Guldberg, RC Baron-Szabo, S Guindon, TC LaJeunesse, TC LaJeunesse, TL Shearer, W Renema, WKW Loh   +34 more
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Three new species of Spongiopsyllus Johnsson, 2000 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Entomolepididae) associated with Aplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882) (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Todos-os-Santos Bay, Northeastern Brazil

European Journal of Taxonomy
Entomolepididae is a small siphonostomatoid family with a distinct shield-like body morphology, comprising 9 genera and 20 species. These genera are divided into two subfamilies, mostly based on their body segmentation, the genera with fused pedigerous ...
Amilcar Farias, Alisson Santana, Elizabeth G. Neves, Rodrigo Jonsson   +3 more
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Description of a new genus of Cryptochiridae (Decapoda: Brachyura) associated with Siderastrea (Anthozoa: Scleractinia), with notes on feeding habits

Scientia Marina, 2012
Members of the Cryptochiridae are small gall-crabs that live as obligate symbionts of scleractinian corals. Only two species have so far been recorded in the western Atlantic Ocean.
Marcelle F.S. Badaro, Elizabeth G. Neves, Peter Castro, Rodrigo Johnsson   +3 more
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A New Genus of Ectinosomatidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) Symbiont in the Digestive Tract of Eudistoma vannamei Millar, 1977 (Ascidia, Polycitoridae)

Arthropoda
A new genus of Ectinosomatidae is recorded in association with an Ascidia from a permanent submerged coral community in Barra Beach, Salvador City, Bahia State (Brazil).
Paulo H. Corgosinho, Terue C. Kihara, Amilcar Farias, Nikolaos Schizas, Elizabeth Neves, Rodrigo Johnsson   +5 more
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