gastrozooid


Also found in: Encyclopedia.

gastrozooid

a feeding polyp in colonial COELENTRATES.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
References in periodicals archive ?
This colony consists of a central polyp specialized in feeding (the gastrozooid), above which there is a circular floater.
2 Pelagic life
In the laboratory, small pieces of tissue, or explants, including four or five gastrozooids were excised with a scalpel and transferred with watchmaker's forceps to plain glass microscope slides (7.64 cm X 3.82 cm, 1.1-1.3 mm thick).
Fitness consequences of allorecognition-mediated agonistic interactions in the colonial hydroid Hydractinia [GM]*
At the same time, we also established clonal explants of the parental colonies by excising with a scalpel a small section of ectodermal mat containing several feeding polyps (gastrozooids) from the stock colonies on the hermit crab shells (Ivker 1972).
Evolutionary genetics of allorecognition in the colonial hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Medical browser ?
Full browser ?