Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word STROBILATION
STROBILATION
Definitions of STROBILATION
- (biology) A form of asexual reproduction by division into body segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfish
Number of letters
12
Is palindrome
No
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- In those scyphozoans that have the larval planula metamorphose into a polyp, the polyp, also called a "scyphistoma," grows until it develops a stack of plate-like medusae that pinch off and swim away in a process known as strobilation.
- Historically, cubozoans were classified as an order of Scyphozoa until 1973, when they were put in their own class due to their unique biological cycle (lack of strobilation) and morphology.
- Unlike most scyphozoan jellyfish that practice strobilation, or the process of dividing themselves into body segments, which become new individuals, nearly all stauromedusae develop directly into the adult form.
- Mastigias jellyfish have a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae The Mastigias genus of jellyfish symbiotically produce ephyrae only in the presence of Symbiodinium, in a process called strobilation.
- The planulae attach to a benthic substrate and develop into a sessile polyp which releases immature medusae through asexual reproduction called strobilation.
- Branson (1961) classified Conostichus as part of Scyphomedusae, interpreting the fossils as representing a basal disk and lappets corresponding to the strobilation stage of modern scyphozoans.
- Either ephyrae or planuloids may be produced by strobilation; only ephyrae can produce the medusal form.
- When an oozooid acquires sufficient size it undergoes a form of cloning called strobilation during which its body is pinched into 2 to 6 buds (also known as strobilae) which are still protected by the tunic.
- Another difference between true jellyfish (scyphozoans) and cubozoans is that the entire cubozoan polyp develops into a medusae, as opposed to going through strobilation.
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