Life Cycle Reversal in Aurelia sp.1 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa).
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SUBMITTER: He J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4687044 | biostudies-literature | 2015
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Life Cycle Reversal in Aurelia sp.1 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa).
He Jinru J Zheng Lianming L Zhang Wenjing W Lin Yuanshao Y
PloS one 20151221 12
The genus Aurelia is one of the major contributors to jellyfish blooms in coastal waters, possibly due in part to hydroclimatic and anthropogenic causes, as well as their highly adaptive reproductive traits. Despite the wide plasticity of cnidarian life cycles, especially those recognized in certain Hydroza species, the known modifications of Aurelia life history were mostly restricted to its polyp stage. In this study, we document the formation of polyps directly from the ectoderm of degenerati ...[more]
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