Medusan Morphospace: Phylogenetic Constraints, Biomechanical Solutions, and Ecological Consequences [PDF]
, 2008 Medusae were the earliest animals to evolve muscle-powered swimming in the seas. Although medusae have achieved diverse and prominent ecological roles throughout the world\u27s oceans, we argue that the primitive organization of cnidarian muscle tissue ...
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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 +5 more
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Dynamic Model for Life History of Scyphozoa
PLOS ONE, 2015 A two-state life history model governed by ODEs is formulated to elucidate the population dynamics of jellyfish and to illuminate the triggering mechanism of its blooms. The polyp-medusa model admits trichotomous global dynamic scenarios: extinction, polyps survival only, and both survival.
Meng Fan +3 more
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Questioning the rise of gelatinous zooplankton in the World's oceans [PDF]
, 2012 During the past several decades, high numbers of gelatinous zooplankton species have been reported in many estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Coupled with media-driven public perception, a paradigm has evolved in which the global ocean ecosystems are ...
Acuña +81 more
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A fragmented metazoan organellar genome [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Animal mitochondrial (mt) genomes are characteristically circular molecules of ~16–20 kb. Medusozoa (Cnidaria excluding Anthozoa) are exceptional in that their mt genomes are linear and sometimes subdivided into two to presumably four ...
Erpenbeck, Dirk +2 more
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Morphological diversity of medusan lineages constrained by animal–fluid interactions [PDF]
, 2007 Cnidarian medusae, commonly known as jellyfish, represent the earliest known animal taxa to achieve locomotion using muscle power. Propulsion by medusae requires the force of bell contraction to generate forward thrust.
Colin, Sean P. +2 more
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Evolution and development of scyphozoan jellyfish [PDF]
, 2018 © The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Biological Reviews 93 (2018): 1228-1250, doi:10.1111/brv.12393.Scyphozoan jellyfish, or scyphomedusae,
Helm, Rebecca R.
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A modern description of Crambionella stuhlmanni (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) from St. Lucia Estuary, South Africa [PDF]
, 2011 A new record of Crambionella stuhlmanni is reported from the east coast of South Africa. The material is described using quantitative morphological data, and mitochondrial (CO1) and nuclear (ITS-1) sequence data.
Channing, Alan +3 more
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GSL-Scyphozoa-Hydrozoa-Staurozoa
, 2022 A mini-poster of the principal jellies and hydrozoans that may be expected on biodiversity surveys in Gulf of St. Lawrence (GSL). Updated from a page of a series here: Nozères (2022) Mini-posters of macroinvertebrates in captures from bottom trawl surveys of the estuary and northern Gulf of St.
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Planuloid budding from a cutting plane of polyp stalk of Cassiopea sp.(Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) [PDF]
, 2015 Cassiopea polyps that appeared in culture vessels of Turritopsis sp. polyps at the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University in 2014 were experimentally amputated their stalks from the calyxes.
Gravili, Cinzia +2 more
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