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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The influence of an anthozoan "host factor" on the physiology of a symbiotic dinoflagellate.
Effects of Temperature and pC[Osub.2] on population regulation of symbiodinium spp. in a tropical reef coral
Granular amoebocytes have been described in anthozoan wound infiltrates (Young, 1974; Meszaros and Bigger, 1999) and graft rejection areas (Olano, 1993).
Identification of unstimulated constitutive immunocytes, by enzyme histochemistry, in the coenenchyme of the octocoral Swiftia exserta
A staging system for the regeneration of a polyp from the aboral physa of the anthozoan cnidarian Nematostella vectensis.
Integrins of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Only recently has a symbiotic anthozoan genome become available, from the scleractinian Acropora diginfera (Shinzato et al, 2011).
Study of cnidarian-algal symbiosis in the "omics" age
Stressing the importance of the gastrovascular system for anthozoan physiology, Murdock (1978) examined specimens of Eunicea, Plexaurella, Plexaura, and Pseudoplexaura (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea).
Circulation of fluids in the gastrovascular system of a stoloniferan octocoral
Here we show that genes encoding a highly conserved (both domain organization and sequence) potential usherin are found not only in the deuterostome lineage but also in some protostomes (molluscs and annelids) and the anthozoan Nematostella vectensis.
Expression of usherin in the anthozoan Nematostella vectensis
Many authors state that all cnidarian planula larvae are lecithotrophic, although several examples of planktotrophic anthozoan larvae are known (see below).
How did indirect development with planktotrophic larvae evolve?
Gene expression normalization in a dual-compartment system: a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction protocol for symbiotic anthozoans.
Natural Variation in Responses to Acute Heat and Cold Stress in a Sea Anemone Model System for Coral Bleaching
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
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
Dolmer (2002) observed reduced numbers of poriferans, echinoderms, anthozoans, molluscs, crustaceans, and ascidians in dredged areas four months after dredging for mussels.
Changes in the biodiversity of mussel assemblages induced by two methods of cultivation

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