The biology of coral metamorphosis: Molecular responses of larvae to inducers of settlement and metamorphosis
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2011
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Grasso, Lauretta
Negri, A.P.
Foret, Sylvain
Saint, Robert
Hayward, David
Miller, David J.
Ball, Eldon
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Like many other cnidarians, corals undergo metamorphosis from a motile planula larva to a sedentary polyp. In some sea anemones such as Nematostella this process is a smooth transition requiring no extrinsic stimuli, but in many corals it is more complex
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Keywords: Acropora; animal cell; article; controlled study; coral; ectoderm; gene expression; in situ hybridization; larval development; metamorphosis; microarray analysis; molecular mechanics; nonhuman; nucleotide sequence; priority journal; Amino Acid Sequence; A Acropora; Coral; LWamide; Metamorphosis; Microarray; Settlement
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