A review of the role played by cilia in medusozoan feeding mechanics

MA Jordano, RM Nagata, AC Morandini - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cilia are widely present in metazoans and have various sensory and motor functions,
including collection of particles through feeding currents in suspensivorous animals …

Physiology and functional biology of Rhizostomeae jellyfish

RM Nagata, I D'Ambra, C Lauritano… - … in marine biology, 2024 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rhizostomeae species attract our attention because of their distinctive body shape, their
large size and because of blooms of some species in coastal areas around the world. The …

Ecology of Rhizostomeae

D Thibault, Z Kuplik, L Prieto, A Enrique-Navarro… - Advances in Marine …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Max Egon Thiel's chapter on the ecology of rhizostomes in his review up to 1970
covered a bewildering variety of topics, many of which are the focus of other chapters in this …

Morphology of Rhizostomeae jellyfishes: What is known and what we advanced since the 1970s

AC Morandini - Advances in marine biology, 2024 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The morphology of members of the order Rhizostomeae is revisited considering all life cycle
stages, but with emphasis on the medusa. The current classification of the group is …

Non-invasive investigation of the morphology and optical properties of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea with optical coherence tomography

NH Lyndby, S Murthy, S Bessette… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The jellyfish Cassiopea largely cover their carbon demand via photosynthates produced by
microalgal endosymbionts, but how holobiont morphology and tissue optical properties …

Ontogenetic transitions, biomechanical trade-offs and macroevolution of scyphozoan medusae swimming patterns

GM von Montfort, JH Costello, SP Colin… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Ephyrae, the early stages of scyphozoan jellyfish, possess a conserved morphology among
species. However, ontogenetic transitions lead to morphologically different shapes among …

Photobiology and metabolic interactions in the symbiotic jellyfish Cassiopea

NH Lyndby - 2023 - infoscience.epfl.ch
The symbiont-bearing jellyfish Cassiopea live a benthic lifestyle, positioning themselves
upside-down on sediments in shallow waters to allow their endosymbiotic algae to …