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The Warty Comb Jelly in the Black Sea

2017
The warty comb jelly is a zooplankton-feeding species of tentaculate ctenophore native to western Atlantic coastal waters. In the early 1980s, it came to the Black Sea, probably with ballast water from the US East Coast. In 1988, it was already common everywhere, and in 1989, the population exploded reaching a biomass that approached 1 billion tons wet
Arne Jernelöv, Jernelöv Arne
exaly   +3 more sources

EVOLUTION. Comb jelly 'anus' guts ideas on origin of through-gut.

Science, 2016
Videos of captive marine creatures unexpectedly show jellies defecate from pores, not via their mouth.
A. Maxmen
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Combined Effects of Hypoxia and Crude Oil on the Invasive Comb Jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi.

Environmental Science & Technology
Coastal ecosystems are subject to multiple anthropogenic stressors, including hypoxia and crude oil pollution. This study examines the individual and combined effects of varying oxygen levels (1%, 10%, and 100% O2 sat.) and crude oil (1 μL L-1) on the ...
Magnus Heide Andreasen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Degeneration of Comb Plates during Larval Stages in a Sessile Platyctenid Ctenophore, Lyrocteis imperatoris (Ctenophore, Platyctenida)

Zoological Science
In species belonging to the phylum Ctenophore, comb plates consisting of bundles of multiple cilia are a characteristic synapomorphy and are essential for active swimming.
Ryosuke Kimbara   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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