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SUBMITTER: Malul D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937341 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Malul Dror D Lotan Tamar T Makovsky Yizhaq Y Holzman Roi R Shavit Uri U
Scientific reports 20191230 1
Jellyfish locomotion and orientation have been studied in the past both in the laboratory, testing mostly small jellyfish, and in the field, where it was impossible to control the seawater currents. Utilizing an outdoor water flume, we tested the locomotion of jellyfish when swimming against and with currents of up to 4.5 cm s<sup>-1</sup>. We used adult jellyfish from two of the most abundant species in the eastern Mediterranean, Rhopilema nomadica and Rhizostoma pulmo, and measured their pulsa ...[more]