• DOI:10.2307/1543022
Corpus ID: 3956265

Reversing the Life Cycle: Medusae Transforming into Polyps and Cell Transdifferentiation in Turritopsis nutricula (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa).

@article{Piraino1996ReversingTL,
  title={Reversing the Life Cycle: Medusae Transforming into Polyps and Cell Transdifferentiation in Turritopsis nutricula (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa).},
  author={Stefano Piraino and Ferdinando Boero and Bruno Aeschbach and Volker Dr.-Ing. Schmid},
  journal={The Biological bulletin},
  year={1996},
  volume={190 3},
  pages={
          302-312
        }
}

Stefano Piraino, Ferdinando Boero, +1 author Volker Dr.-Ing. Schmid

Published 1996

Medicine, Biology

The Biological bulletin

Organisms develop through a series of stages leading to sexually mature adults. In a few cases ontogeny reversal is possible, but it does not occur typically after the onset of sexual reproduction. All stages of the medusa Turritopsis nutricula, from newly liberated to fully mature individuals, can transform back into colonial hydroids, either directly or through a resting period, thus escaping death and achieving potential immortality. This is the first metazoan known to revert to a colonial… CONTINUE READING

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