anthozoan


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anthozoan

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actinozoan

any of the sessile COELENTERATES of the class Anthozoa, including sea anemones, sea pens and corals, that have no medusoid stage (see MEDUSA and possess a body cavity that is more complex than in other coelenterates.
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This includes the septal retractor muscles of anthozoan polyps, where rows of longitudinal myocytes project into the mesoglea (e.g., in gorgonian and stoloniferan octocoral polyps; Satterlie and Case, 1978, 1980).
Tentacle Musculature in the Cubozoan Jellyfish Carybdea marsupialis
Free amino acids exhibit anthozoan "host factor" activity: they induce the release of photosynthate from symbiotic dino-fiagellates in vitro.
Effects of Temperature and pC[Osub.2] on population regulation of symbiodinium spp. in a tropical reef coral
Unfortunately, many of these have not yet been adapted for use in anthozoan cnidarians.
Identification of unstimulated constitutive immunocytes, by enzyme histochemistry, in the coenenchyme of the octocoral Swiftia exserta
Nematostella vectensis is a small, burrowing anthozoan found in estuaries along both coasts of North America and the south coast of England (Hand and Uhlinger, 1994) that can be readily maintained and manipulated in the laboratory (Hand and Uhlinger, 1992; Darling et al., 2005; Technau and Steele, 2011; Bossert et al., 2013; Layden et al., 2013; Stefanik et al., 2013).
Integrins of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
The complement of cnidae distinguishes the anthozoan subclasses Hexacorallia and Octocorallia (reviewed in Daly et al., 2003), and morphology of the nematocyst capsule provides the only morphological evidence for monophyly of the hexacorallian order Actiniaria (Reft and Daly, 2012).
Nematocysts of the invasive hydroid Cordylophora caspia (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)
Furthermore, the availability of sequence resources for diverse species of symbiotic anthozoan species opens new comparative possibilities for the study of cnidarian-algal symbiosis.
Study of cnidarian-algal symbiosis in the "omics" age
Among anthozoan larvae, protein kinase C activation mediates metamorphosis in several Red Sea corals (Henning et al., 1996, 1998), but not in the Australian coral Acropora millepora (Negri et al ., 2001).
Are G-protein-coupled receptors involved in mediating larval settlement and metamorphosis of coral planulae?
Several species of anthozoans have been found to contain significant quantities of DOPA and DOPA-like derivatives, such as 5-cysteinyldopa and 5-hydroxydopa, in their nerve nets (Carlberg et al., 1982; Carlberg, 1983, 1990; Hudman and McFarlane, 1995).
Catecholic Compounds in Ctenophore Colloblast and Nerve Net Proteins Suggest a Structural Role for DOPA-Like Molecules in an Early-Diverging Animal Lineage
The latter specimen had unusually pale cerata, probably reflecting an atypical complement of the anthozoans normally consumed by this species (Beeman and Williams 1980).
Nudibranch range shifts associated with the 2014 warm anomaly in the Northeast Pacific
Furthermore, recent descriptions of very small phosphatized fossils that predate the Cambrian by 25 million years or more have demonstrated the presence of cnidarians that might even be stem anthozoans (the cnidarian class that includes anemones and corals).
The fossil record of the Cambrian "explosion": resolving the tree of life
Gates, "Gene expression normalization in a dual-compartment system: a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction protocol for symbiotic anthozoans," Molecular Ecology Resources, vol.
The impacts of ex situ transplantation on the physiology of the Taiwanese reef-building coral Seriatopora hystrix
In addition, the live cover of eight epibenthic biotic characteristics (erect macroalgae, turf algae, calcareous rhodophytes in the genus Porolithon, seagrasses, sponges, hydrocorals in the genus Millepora, encrusting non-scleractinian anthozoans, and scleractinians were ranked as follows: 1(0%), 2(1-5%), 3(6-10%), 4(11-25%), 5(26-50%), 6(51-75) and 7(76-100%).
Distribution and size of benthic marine habitats in Dominica, Lesser Antilles

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