New insights into reproductive traits of scyphozoans: special methods of propagation in Sanderia malayensis GOETTE, 1886 (Pelagiidae, Semaeostomeae) enable establishing a new classification of asexual reproduction in the class Scyphozoa |
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Authors: | Laetitia Adler and Gerhard Jarms |
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Institution: | (1) Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 20146, Germany |
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Abstract: | Asexual propagation is an underappreciated way of increasing the sessile population of the metagenetic Scyphozoa. Our studies
on Sanderia malayensis have shown a great variety of asexual reproduction modes. A new mode of polyp asexual propagation is described. By integrating
earlier reported modes occurring in other species we established a classification which may serve as a standard tool to describe
asexual propagation in Scyphozoa.
The experiments performed comply with the current laws of Germany. |
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