Salinity effects on asexual reproduction of Carybdea sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 10 Dec 2013 Italy English Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)Journal:Journal of Plankton Research, volume 36, pages 585-590 (issn: 0142-7873, eissn: 1464-3774,

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Authors: Canepa A.; Purcell J. E.; Bosch-Belmar Mar; Acevedo M.; Gentile M.; Fuentes A.;

doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbt124

handle: 10261/97676 , 10447/577329

Salinity effects on asexual reproduction of Carybdea sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)

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Medusa production in cubozoans may be associated with reduced-salinity waters. Asexual reproduction of Carybdea sp. differed at different salinities. The metamorphosis of Carybdea sp. polyps into medusae was accelerated at low salinity (32), while more polyps were budded from the original polyp at the highest salinity (38), probably due to prolonged metamorphosis. High-nutrient river discharge may provide favorable conditions for Carybdea sp. blooms. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved

This work was funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Commission, the Ministry of the Environment of Spain and the Conselleria de Medi Ambient from the Generalitat Valenciana CUBOMED project (LIFE08 NAT ES64). A.C. was supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT – PFCHA/ Doctorado al Extranjero 4ª Convocatoria, 72120016)

6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, supplementary data http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/2/585/suppl/DC1

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Italy

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Spanish National Research Council
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University of Palermo
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Eastern Washington University
United States

Keywords

Budding, Metamorphosis, Jellyfish bloom, Box jellyfish, Mixed models, Survival analysis

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