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SUBMITTER: Lee MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6052147 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Michael D MD Kling Joshua D JD Araya Rubén R Ceh Janja J
Frontiers in microbiology 20180712
The key to 650 million years of evolutionary success in jellyfish is adaptability: with alternating benthic and pelagic generations, sexual and asexual reproductive modes, multitudes of body forms and a cosmopolitan distribution, jellyfish are likely to have established a plenitude of microbial associations. Here we explored bacterial assemblages in the scyphozoan jellyfish <i>Chrysaora plocamia</i> (Lesson 1832). Life stages involved in propagation through cyst formation, i.e., the mother polyp ...[more]