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Cnidaria

Known as: Cnidarians, Cnidarias, Coelenterata 
A phylum of radially symmetrical invertebrates characterized by possession of stinging cells called nematocysts. It includes the classes ANTHOZOA… 
National Institutes of Health

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AnthozoaCubozoaHydrozoa
Aquatic OrganismsCnidarian VenomsCtenophora <comb jellyfish phylum>Jellyfish

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Invertebrates

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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Unexpected complexity of the Wnt gene family in a sea anemone
The Wnt gene family encodes secreted signalling molecules that control cell fate in animal development and human diseases… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Genetic diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium.
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
THE NEW VIEW OF ANIMAL PHYLOGENY
■ Abstract Molecular tools have profoundly rearranged our understanding of metazoan phylogeny. Initially based on the nuclear… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Invertebrate immune systems – not homogeneous, not simple, not well understood
Summary:  The approximate 30 extant invertebrate phyla have diversified along separate evolutionary trajectories for hundreds of… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Investigating the origins of triploblasty: `mesodermal' gene expression in a diploblastic animal, the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (phylum, Cnidaria; class, Anthozoa)
Mesoderm played a crucial role in the radiation of the triploblastic Bilateria, permitting the evolution of larger and more… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Lagrangian descriptions of marine larval dispersion
Many marine organisms are sedentary as adults and are redistributed between genera- tions by the oceanic transport of planktonic… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatolite reefs of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia
Abstract Reefs containing abundant calcified metazoans occur at several stratigraphic levels within carbonate platforms of the… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Mortality Patterns Suggest Lack of Senescence in Hydra
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Defenses of Caribbean sponges against predatory reef fish. I. Chemical deterrency
Laboratory feeding assays employing the common Canbbean wrasse Thalassoma bifasciatum were undertaken to determine the… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Extrusive organelles in protists.
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