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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
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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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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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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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Glabralysins, potential New β-pore-forming toxin family members from the schistosomiasis vector snail biomphalaria glabrata [PDF]

, 2020
Biomphalaria glabrata is a freshwater Planorbidae snail. In its environment, this mollusk faces numerous microorganisms or pathogens, and has developed sophisticated innate immune mechanisms to survive.
Crickmore, Neil, Duval, David, Galinier, Richard, Gourbal, Benjamin, Lassalle, Damien, Pinaud, Silvain, Tetreau, Guillaume   +6 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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Trends in hydroidomedusan research from 1911 to 1997

Scientia Marina, 2000
The papers on hydroidomedusae published from 1911 to 1997 total 10,934. They have been assigned to the following categories: faunistics and systematics; sub-organismal biology; ecology; evolution; life cycles; paleontology.
C. Gravili, R. Pagliara, W. Vervoort, J. Bouillon, F. Boero   +4 more
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Myxosporea (Myxozoa, Cnidaria) Lack DNA Cytosine Methylation

Molecular biology and evolution, 2020
DNA cytosine methylation is central to many biological processes, including regulation of gene expression, cellular differentiation, and development.
Ryan Kyger, Agusto Luzuriaga-Neira, Thomas S. Layman, Tatiana Orli Milkewitz Sandberg, Devika Singh, Dorothée Huchon, Sateesh Peri, S. Atkinson, J. Bartholomew, S. Yi, David Alvarez-Ponce   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source