Reversing the life cycle: Medusae transforming into polyps and cell transdifferentiation in Turritopsis nutricula (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 302-312

  Piraino, Stefano ^a,b   Boero, Ferdinando ^c   Aeschbach, Brigitte ^d   Schmid, Volker ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio di Ecologia del Benthos   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; HYDROIDA; HYDROZOA; METAZOA; NUTRICOLA; TURRITOPSIS NUTRICOLA; TURRITOPSIS NUTRICULA;

EID: 0029776722     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543022     Document Type: Article

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