Invertebrate oogenesis–a review and synthesis: comparative ovarian morphology, accessory cell function and the origins of yolk precursors

KJ Eckelbarger, AN Hodgson - Invertebrate Reproduction & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Oogenesis is a fundamental biological process observed in most animals. Animals employ
many different mechanisms to make their eggs and oogenesis cannot be completed without …

Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits

E Kayal, B Bentlage, M Sabrina Pankey… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The phylogeny of Cnidaria has been a source of debate for decades,
during which nearly all-possible relationships among the major lineages have been …

Phylogenomic analyses support traditional relationships within Cnidaria

F Zapata, FE Goetz, SA Smith, M Howison, S Siebert… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, is a highly diverse group of animals in terms of
morphology, lifecycles, ecology, and development. How this diversity originated and evolved …

[图书][B] The tangled tree: a radical new history of life

D Quammen - 2019 - books.google.com
In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award,“our
greatest living chronicler of the natural world”(The New York Times), David Quammen …

Coloniality, clonality, and modularity in animals: The elephant in the room

LS Hiebert, C Simpson, S Tiozzo - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nearly half of the animal phyla contain species that propagate asexually via agametic
reproduction, often forming colonies of genetically identical modules, that is, ramets, zooids …

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

E Kayal, B Roure, H Philippe, AG Collins… - BMC evolutionary …, 2013 - Springer
Background Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, hydroids, jellyfish) is a phylum of relatively
simple aquatic animals characterized by the presence of the cnidocyst: a cell containing a …

Towards a phylogenetic classification of Leptothecata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

MM Maronna, TP Miranda, ÁL Peña Cantero… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Leptothecata are hydrozoans whose hydranths are covered by perisarc and gonophores
and whose medusae bear gonads on their radial canals. They develop complex polypoid …

[PDF][PDF] Box, stalked, and upside-down? Draft genomes from diverse jellyfish (Cnidaria, Acraspeda) lineages: Alatina alata (Cubozoa), Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Staurozoa) …

A Ohdera, CL Ames, RB Dikow, E Kayal… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Anthozoa, Endocnidozoa, and Medusozoa are the 3 major clades of
Cnidaria. Medusozoa is further divided into 4 clades, Hydrozoa, Staurozoa, Cubozoa, and …

Animal evolution at the ocean's water-air interface

CJ Anthony, B Bentlage, RR Helm - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Innovation is a key to evolutionary success and entrance into novel ecosystems. 1 Species
that float freely at the ocean's surface, termed obligate neuston (also called pleuston, here …

Morphology and development of the Portuguese man of war, Physalia physalis

C Munro, Z Vue, RR Behringer, CW Dunn - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The Portuguese man of war, Physalia physalis, is one of the most conspicuous, but poorly
understood members of the pleuston, a community of organisms that occupy a habitat at the …