Mnemiopsis leidyi
Distribution of Exotic Comb Jelly Mnemiopsis Leidyi (A. Agassiz, 1865) in the Southeast of the Caspian Sea (Mazandaran-Goharbaran)
... jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi was introduced into the Caspian via the ballast water into the Caspian Sea in ...M. leidyi were conducted in the southeast region of the Caspian Sea (Mazandaran-Goharbaran) in ...
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Sterile Surfaces of Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora) in Bacterial Suspension—A Key to Invasion Success?
... that Mnemiopsis has few to no bacteria on the epidermis while the gut contains bacte- ria characteristic of the free-living populations (Moss, unpublished ...M. leidyi tissue and ...between ...
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Invasion of Danish and Adjacent Waters by the Comb Jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi—10 Years After
... that Mnemiopsis leidyi re-invade Limfjorden from the North Sea every year (via the Jutland current that flows northwards along the Danish west coast) through Thyborøn Canal [20], see Figure ...M. ...
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Damages to the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Baltic Sea by the invader comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi
... ktenofor Mnemiopsis leidyi ’nin Karadeniz, Hazar Denizi ve Baltık Denizi’ni işgalinden sonra bu ekosistemlerde meydana gelen değişimler ...M. leidyi bolluğundaki artış aşırı avcılık nedeniyle zaten ...
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Establishing and maintaining primary cell cultures derived from the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi
... The unique attributes of ctenophores are, in part, due to the long separation of the ctenophore lineage from other metazoans (Dunn et al., 2008; Whelan et al., 2015). Although many unique cell types are present in ...
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Genomic insights into Wnt signaling in an early diverging metazoan, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi
... Fortunately, genomic data (gene content and complex- ity) and information on overall genomic structure can prove useful in resolving the relationship of these clades to one another. The genomes of the anthozoan cnidar- ...
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Features of phytoplankton community in the southern Caspian Sea, a decade after the invasion of Mnemiopsis leidyi
... Phytoplankton study has become more significant in the Caspian Sea due to the occurrence of ecological events such as algal blooms and the introduction of the invader species(Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis ...
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A cleavage clock regulates features of lineage-specific differentiation in the development of a basal branching metazoan, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi
... jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi show differentiation of selected cell fates even when cytokinesis is arrested using cytochalasin B during the course of early embryogenesis ...
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Regeneration in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi occurs in the absence of a blastema, requires cell division, and is temporally separable from wound healing
... In this study, we provide a detailed morphological and cellular characterization of wound healing and regenera- tion in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi . Wound clo- sure is initiated immediately after ...
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State of Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora: Lobata) and mesozooplankton in Iranian waters of the Caspian Sea during 2008 in comparison with previous surveys
... Mnemiopsis leidyi which was accidentally introduced into the Caspian Sea in 1999 and since then has colonized ...M. leidyi and dominant mesozooplankton species was investigated in the south western ...
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Expression of multiple Sox genes through embryonic development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is spatially restricted to zones of cell proliferation
... Mle, Mnemiopsis leidyi; Mmu, Mus musculus; Nve, Nematostella vectensis; Ppi, Pleurobrachia pileus; Sci, Sycon ciliatum; Spu, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus; Tad, Trichoplax ...M. leidyi that gave ...
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Developmental expression of “germline”- and “sex determination”-related genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi
... Mnemiopsis leidyi adults were collected from Eel Pond or the NOAA Rock Jetty, Woods Hole, MA, USA, during the months of June and July and spawned as previously described ...
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Genomic organization, evolution, and expression of photoprotein and opsin genes in Mnemiopsis leidyi: a new view of ctenophore photocytes
... Calcium-activated photoproteins are a special class of luciferase found in cnidarians and ctenophores. In these organisms, the factors required for light emission, includ- ing the luciferin (coelenterazine) and oxygen, ...
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The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa
... A scenario grouping cnidarians and ctenophores into a ‘ coelenterate ’ clade consistent with the phylogenomic study by Philippe et al. [10] seems unlikely based on the number of clades that include a Nematostella ...
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Modelling survival and connectivity of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the south-western North Sea and Scheldt estuaries
... The biological development and behaviour module of GITM allows particles to progress through a user-defined number of egg and larval development stages, using phys- ical and biological information from the GETM–ERSEM– ...
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Lim homeobox genes in the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi: the evolution of neural cell type specification
... M. leidyi Lhx ...subclass. Mnemiopsis Lhx genes are expressed in both overlap- ping and non-overlapping domains within proposed neural and sensory cell ...
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Nuclear receptors from the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi lack a zinc-finger DNA-binding domain: lineage-specific loss or ancestral condition in the emergence of the nuclear receptor superfamily?
... For the two candidate NRs, we performed 5’- and 3’-RACE with gene specific primers, using cDNA pre- pared from RNA pooled from diverse developmental stages (see Additional file 1 for all primers). RACE pro- ducts were ...
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Cholinergic and Monoaminergic Mechanisms Associated with Control of Bioluminescence in the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi
... Effects of propranolol A and 5-HT B on luminescence induced by electrical stimulation arrowheads: 12 V, 20 ms, 20 Hz, 400 ms pulse train in isolated segments of comb plate rows.. In A an[r] ...
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The changed ecosystem of the black sea and its impact on anchovy fisheries
... ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi which was accidentally in- troduced into this sea from the northwest ...of Mnemiopsis ap- pears to be one of the most important reasons for the sharp decrease of anchovy ...
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Variability of the bioluminescence characteristics of the Black Sea ctenophores aliens in connection with different conditions of nutrition
... nophores-aliens Mnemiopsis leidyi ...M. leidyi biolumi- nescence has shown that amplitude and light-emitting energy of the just-caught ctenophores were two times more than those of the starving ...
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