Pleurobrachia

The phylogenetic position of the phylum Ctenophora and the nature of ctenphore nervous systems are highly debated topics in… (More)

Leonid L. Moroz, Kevin M. Kocot, Mathew R. Citarella, Sohn Dosung, Tigran P. Norekian, Inna S. Povolotskaya, Anastasia P… (More)

Ctenophores are one of the most basally branching lineages of metazoans with the largest mitochondrial organelles in the animal… (More)

We investigated whether phosphorus limitations of primary producers propagate upwards through the food web, not only to the… (More)

Die Ctenophoren gehören zu den Holoplanktern, die im neritischen Bereich der Nordsee eine wichtige Rolle in der Nahrungskette… (More)

Tentacles and colloblasts of the Ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus have been investigated light- and electron microscopically… (More)

The statocyst of the ctenophore, Pleurobrachia pileus, was studied by light and electron microscopy and by histochemical… (More)

The traditional view has been that all species of the phylum Ctenophora are capable of producing light. Our inability to elicit… (More)

High-speed cinematography of feeding Pleurobrachia revealed a stereo-typed sequence of ciliary motor responses underlying the… (More)

Intercellular gap junctions occur between the ciliated cells that make up the comb plates of the ctenophore Pleurobrachia… (More)