Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft [PDF]
Crabs of the genus Lybia have the remarkable habit of holding a sea anemone in each of their claws. This partnership appears to be obligate, at least on the part of the crab.
Yisrael Schnytzer +3 more
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Molecular tuning of sea anemone stinging. [PDF]
Abstract Jellyfish and sea anemones fire single-use, venom-covered barbs to immobilize prey or predators. We previously showed that the anemone Nematostella vectensis uses a specialized voltage-gated calcium (Ca V ) channel to trigger stinging in ...
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Sea anemones are known to produce a diverse array of toxins with different cysteine-rich peptide scaffolds in their venoms. The serine peptidase inhibitors, specifically Kunitz inhibitors, are an important toxin family that is believed to function as ...
Daiane Laise da Silva +10 more
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New record of the sea anemone Kadosactis antarctica (Carlgren, 1928): re-description of an Antarctic deep-sea sea anemone, and a discussion of its generic and familial placement [PDF]
Sagartiogeton antarcticus Carlgren, 1928 is an Antarctic deep-sea species of sea anemone only known from its holotype. The species has been assigned to the genera Sagartiogeton and Kadosactis, and is currently placed within the family Kadosactidae ...
López González, Pablo José +1 more
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Novel in situ observations of asexual reproduction in the carpet sea anemone, Stichodactyla mertensii (Stichodactylidae, Actiniaria) [PDF]
Merten’s carpet sea anemone, Stichodactyla mertensii Brandt, 1835, is the largest known sea anemone species in the world, regularly exceeding one meter in oral disc diameter. A tropical species from the Indo-Pacific, S.
Morgan F. Bennett-Smith +4 more
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From ctenophores to scyphozoans: parasitic spillover of a burrowing sea anemone. [PDF]
Iakovleva A +3 more
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Sea anemone model has a single Toll-like receptor that can function in pathogen detection, NF-κB signal transduction, and development [PDF]
In organisms from insects to vertebrates, Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are primary pathogen detectors that activate downstream pathways, specifically those that direct expression of innate immune effector genes.
Brennan, Joseph J. +5 more
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Zooxanthella adalah alga simbiotik yang hidup berasosiasi secara mutualisme pada jaringan endodermis anemon laut. Dinamika alga zooxanthellae telah banyak diketahui pada anemon hasil reproduksi seksual namun sebaliknya pada anemon hasil reproduksi ...
M. Ahsin Rifa’i
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The article presents a potentially obligate association of a pleustid amphipod of the genus Pleusymtes (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pleustidae) with the large sea anemone Urticina eques (Gosse, 1858) (Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Actiniidae) from shallow waters of ...
Ivan N. Marin +2 more
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Evolutionary transition between invertebrates and vertebrates via methylation reprogramming in embryogenesis [PDF]
© The Author(s), 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Xu, X., Li, G., Li, C., Zhang, J., Wang, Q., Simmons, D. K., Chen, X., Wijesena, N., Zhu, W., Wang, Z.,
Aluru, Neelakanteswar +20 more
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