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    the genus Mnemiopsis, but they are now believed to be different ecological forms of a single species M. leidyi by most zoologists. Mnemiopsis have an oval-shaped...
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    genome of Mnemiopsis leidyi ten genes encode photoproteins. These genes are co-expressed with opsin genes in the developing photocytes of Mnemiopsis leidyi...
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    Mediterranean were severely depleted in the 1980s by the invasive comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi which eats the eggs and young, they have since stabilized albeit...
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    Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The more flattened species of the genus Mnemiopsis, about 4 inches (10 cm) long, are common on the upper Atlantic coast;...
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    ecosystem can be attributed to a seemingly harmless planktonic organism . Mnemiopsis leidyi, a species of comb jelly that inhabits estuaries from the United...
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  • impulses provide the stimulus that causes photocytes to emit light. For Mnemiopsis leidyi, the ability to produce light is first observed upon the development...
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    Andreas D. (2010-10-04). "The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the Parahoxozoa"...
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    unusual among cnidarians. P. noctiluca will eat small warty comb jellies (Mnemiopsis leidyi), potentially helping to control this invasive species. Cannibalism...
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    these are pulled into the large mouth and swallowed whole. The comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi is an invasive species originally native to the western Atlantic...
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    smaller chunks from their prey. In the late 1980s the ctenophore species Mnemiopsis leidyi was introduced into the Black Sea, probably through ballast water...
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    nomadica outbreaks in the eastern Mediterranean, and of Aurelia aurita and Mnemiopsis leidyi outbreaks in the Black Sea. Some jellyfish populations that have...
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    independently in plants and animals. Focusing on the animals, the genome of Mnemiopsis leidyi appears to lack recognizable microRNAs, as well as the nuclear...
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    Mnemiopsis reduced the biomass of copepods and other zooplankton in the late 1980s. Additionally, an alien species—the warty comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi)—was...
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    These may in part be due to the increasing dominance of the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi which in turn may be related to increases in sea temperature[citation...
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    reported from the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica, two from the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi four from the placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens and 17 from the cnidarian...
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    developmental stages before adopting the adult form. When the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi was accidentally introduced into the Black Sea in the 1980s, it...
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    результаты - минэкологии" [Initial Results in the Fight Against the Malicious Mnemiopsis in Caspian Waters – Ministry of the Environment]. Trend News Agency. Retrieved...
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    being transported in ballast water, among them the invasive comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, the dangerous bacterium Vibrio cholerae, or the fouling zebra...
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    Nematostella vectensis, it infects a species of pelagic ctenophore known as Mnemiopsis leidyi. The planula can infect its host in two ways: burrowing through...
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    RT, Simmons DK, et al. (December 2013). "The genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and its implications for cell type evolution". Science. 342 (6164):...
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  • harbors, water treatment plants, and power plants.[citation needed] Mnemiopsis leidyi, commonly known as the sea walnut, is a ctenophore species in the...
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    (it has now been surpassed by the mitchondrial genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, which is 10,326 bp long). All mitochondrial tRNA genes are absent...
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    (Eschscholtz, 1829) Lesueuria vitrea Milne Edwards, 1841 Genus Mnemiopsis Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865 "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species...
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  • Southeast Asia and Australia. Rice crop pest. Native to South America. Mnemiopsis leidyi Comb jelly American comb jelly, comb jelly, comb jellyfish, sea...
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    to an ecosystem can be attributed to a seemingly harmless jellyfish. Mnemiopsis leidyi, a species of comb jellyfish that spread so it now inhabits estuaries...
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    Breitbart, M. (2012) "Bacterial communities associated with the ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe ovata". FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 82(1): 90–101. doi:10...
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    associated with declines in other populations, a closely related species Mnemiopsis leidyi has. This ctenophore had catastrophic effects on fish catches after...
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    PMID 30257078. Ryan, J. F. (December 13, 2013). "The genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and its implications for cell type evolution". Science. 342 (6164):...
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    immunity and in vivo imaging, replacing mice and rats in such experiments. Mnemiopsis leidyi, from the phylum Ctenophora (comb jelly) used as a model for evolutionary...
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    jellyfish are currently having a population explosion within these waters. Mnemiopsis leidyi, commonly known as sea walnut comb jellies, and the Lion's mane...
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