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Cytologische Veränderungen während der Metamorphose des CubopolypenTripedalia cystophora (Cubozoa, Carybdeidae) in die Meduse
Cytological changes during the metamorphosis from the cubopolypTripedalia cystophora (Cubozoa, Carybdeidae) to a medusa
Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen volume 39, pages 129–164 (1985)
Abstract
The life cycle ofTripedalia cystophora includes a sessile saclike polyp — the asexual reproducing form — and a pelagic tetraradial medusa — the sexually reproducing generation. Medusan development can be induced by temperature increase. It reveals neither budding nor strobilation, but a real metamorphosis of a polyp to only one medusa. According to morphological and anatomical criteria the metamorphosis can be subdivided into four different stages: (1) four longitudinal furrows segment the polyp, the tentacles of which are apportionated on the four quadrants of the body. (2) The subumbrellar cavity develops by invagination of the peristom; the relicts of the fused tentacles change to four rhopalia buds. (3) Medusan architecture including four new interradial tentacles, four rhopalia and the subumbrellar swimming musculature is completed. (4) A young tetraradial medusa starts swimming. Ultrastructural analysis of those metamorphic stages show the different processes of morphogenesis: (a) Gastrodermal cells — absorptive and spumous cells — undergo transdifferentiation and proliferation to medusan cells of the same structure and function. (b) Epidermal cells, excluding the epithel muscle cells, dissociate and are autolytically withdrawn. Dedifferentiated epithel muscle cells — interstitial cells — regain the ability to develop a complete new set of somatic cells, not originally present in the polyp. They include amongst others cross-striated muscle cells, medusan typic nematocyts and particularly sensory and nervous cells. Those cells establish a nervous system with lens-eyes, simple ocelli, statocysts, diffuse nerve net and an additional nerve ring.
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Laska-Mehnert, G. Cytologische Veränderungen während der Metamorphose des CubopolypenTripedalia cystophora (Cubozoa, Carybdeidae) in die Meduse. Helgolander Meeresunters 39, 129–164 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01997447
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