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A collection of hexactinellids (Porifera) from the deep South Atlantic and North Pacific: new genus, new species and new records

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

A description of a novel swimming behavior in a dioecious population of <i>Craspedacusta sowerbii</i>, the rediscovery of the elusive <i>Astrohydra japonica</i> and the first genetic analysis of freshwater jellyfish in Japan

A molecular phylogeny for the order Clathrinida rekindles and refines Haeckel's taxonomic proposal for calcareous sponges ⬇️

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A new chondrophorine (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the cadiz formation (Middle Cambrian) of California

scientific article published in 1995

A new deepwater species of Stauromedusae, Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria, Staurozoa, Lucernariidae), and a preliminary investigation of stauromedusan phylogeny based on nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA data

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A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex

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A phylogenomic approach to resolving interrelationships of polyclad flatworms, with implications for life history evolution

A phylogenomic approach to resolving interrelationships of polyclad flatworms, with implications for life-history evolution

A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa), with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb. nov

scholarly article by Lisa-ann Gershwin & Allen G. Collins published January 2002 in Journal of Natural History

A review of the global diversity and natural history of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria, Staurozoa)

Analyses of Stalked Jellyfish in Kitsunezaki, Japan: Calvadosia nagatensis, and Two Lineages of Haliclystus inabai with Early Life Stages Observed in an Aquarium in Canada

Anthropogenic impacts and historical decline in body size of rocky intertidal gastropods in southern California

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Biodiversity and biogeography of hydroids across marine ecoregions and provinces of southern South America and Antarctica

Box Jellyfish Alatina alata Has a Circumtropical Distribution

scientific article published on October 2016

Box, stalked, and upside-down? Draft genomes from diverse jellyfish (Cnidaria, Acraspeda) lineages: Alatina alata (Cubozoa), Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Staurozoa), and Cassiopea xamachana (Scyphozoa)

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Cladistic analysis of Medusozoa and cnidarian evolution

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Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

scientific article (publication date: 9 January 2013)

Comparative internal anatomy of Staurozoa (Cnidaria), with functional and evolutionary inferences

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Comparative morphology and evolution of the cnidosac in Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia)

scientific article published in 2018

Comprehensive phylogenomic analyses resolve cnidarian relationships and the origins of key organismal traits

article published in 2017

Comprehensive phylogenomic analyses resolve cnidarian relationships and the origins of key organismal traits

Correction: Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria

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Corrigendum to "Loss of metagenesis and evolution of a parasitic life style in a group of open-ocean jellyfish" [Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124 (2018) 50-59]

scholarly article by Bastian Bentlage published in September 2018

DNA barcodes unite two problematic taxa: the meiobenthic Boreohydra simplex is a life-cycle stage of Plotocnide borealis (Hydrozoa: Aplanulata)

scientific article (publication date: 10 August 2016)

DNA metabarcoding marker choice skews perception of marine eukaryotic biodiversity

Defining phyla: evolutionary pathways to metazoan body plans

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Description of the eudoxid stages ofLensia havockandLensia leloupi(Cnidaria: Siphonophora: Calycophorae), with a review of all knownLensiaeudoxid bracts

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Distribution of C. sowerbii throughout Japan from 1928 to 2011

Duobrachium sparksae (incertae sedis Ctenophora Tentaculata Cydippida) : A new genus and species of benthopelagic ctenophore seen at 3,910 m depth off the coast of Puerto Rico

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Ellobiopsids of the genus Thalassomyces are alveolates

scientific article published in March 2004

Erratum to: A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex.

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA

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Evolution of biologic complexity: evidence from geology, paleontology, and molecular biology

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Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates ⬇️

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Evolution of linear mitochondrial genomes in medusozoan cnidarians

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Evolution of river dolphins

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Evolution of the claustrum in Cnidaria: comparative anatomy reveals that it is exclusive to some species of Staurozoa and absent in Cubozoa

Evolutionary relationships among scyphozoan jellyfish families based on complete taxon sampling and phylogenetic analyses of 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA.

scientific article published on 23 June 2010

Exceptionally preserved jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian

scientific article published in 2007

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

scientific article published in 2019

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

Fieldable Environmental DNA Sequencing to Assess Jellyfish Biodiversity in Nearshore Waters of the Florida Keys, United States

scientific article published on 13 April 2021

First complete mitochondrial genome sequence from a box jellyfish reveals a highly fragmented linear architecture and insights into telomere evolution

scientific article published on 24 November 2011

First record of the box jellyfishTripedalia cystophora(Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Tripedaliidae) in the Gulf of Mexico

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 129 no. 1, April 2016

First report of the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora (Cubozoa: Tripedaliidae) in the continental USA, from Lake Wyman, Boca Raton, Florida

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Fossils and phylogenies: integrating multiple lines of evidence to investigate the origin of early major metazoan lineages

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Genetic variation of longtail tuna Thunnus tonggol landed in four fish markets in Indonesia based on mitochondrial DNA

Glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

March 2008 scholarly article in Marine Biology Research

Global diversity of inland water cnidarians

Gradual and rapid shifts in the composition of assemblages of hydroids (Cnidaria) along depth and latitude in the deep Atlantic Ocean

Heterogeneity in diagnostic characters across ecoregions: A case study with Botrynema (Hydrozoa: Trachylina: Halicreatidae)

Hundreds of genetic barcodes of the species-rich hydroid superfamily Plumularioidea (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) provide a guide toward more reliable taxonomy

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Insights into the transcriptional and translational mechanisms of linear organellar chromosomes in the box jellyfish Alatina alata (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Cubozoa)

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Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae) ⬇️

scholarly article by Christine Morrow et al published 11 May 2019 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Internal anatomy of Haliclystus antarcticus (Cnidaria, Staurozoa) with a discussion on histological features used in Staurozoan taxonomy

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

Internal anatomy ofHaliclystus antarcticus(Cnidaria, Staurozoa) with a discussion on histological features used in staurozoan taxonomy

scientific article published in 2013

Introduction to animal DNA barcoding protocols

scientific article published on January 2012

Is Haootia quadriformis related to extant Staurozoa (Cnidaria)? Evidence from the muscular system reconsidered

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Jellyfish Antivenoms: Past, Present, and Future

Loss of metagenesis and evolution of a parasitic life style in a group of open-ocean jellyfish.

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Low genetic diversity of the putatively introduced, brackish water hydrozoan,Blackfordia virginica(Leptothecata: Blackfordiidae), throughout the United States, with a new record for Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

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Medusozoan phylogeny and character evolution clarified by new large and small subunit rDNA data and an assessment of the utility of phylogenetic mixture models

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Mitochondrial and nuclear genes suggest that stony corals are monophyletic but most families of stony corals are not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria)

scientific article published in 2008

Molecular paleobiology of early-branching animals: integrating DNA and fossils elucidates the evolutionary history of hexactinellid sponges

Molecular phylogenies support homoplasy of multiple morphological characters used in the taxonomy of Heteroscleromorpha (Porifera: Demospongiae)

scientific article (publication date: September 2013)

Molecules clarify a cnidarian life cycle--the "hydrozoan" Microhydrula limopsicola is an early life stage of the staurozoan Haliclystus antarcticus

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Morphological complexity increase in metazoans

Morphology is not always useful for diagnosis, and that’s ok: Species hypotheses should not be bound to a class of data. Reply to Brown and Gibbons (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(9/10), Art. #12590)

scientific article published in 2022

Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei).

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Mycalina: Another Crack in the Poecilosclerida Framework

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

Naked corals: skeleton loss in Scleractinia

scientific article (publication date: 13 June 2006)

Nearly complete 28S rRNA gene sequences confirm new hypotheses of sponge evolution.

scientific article published on 8 June 2013

New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae

scientific article published in July 2009

On the occurrence of freshwater jellyfish in Japan 1928–2011: eighty-three years of records ofmamizu kurage(Limnomedusae, Olindiidae)

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 125 no. 2, August 2012

Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription

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Phylogenetic and Selection Analysis of an Expanded Family of Putatively Pore-Forming Jellyfish Toxins (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)

scientific article published in 2021

Phylogenetic context and Basal metazoan model systems

scientific article published in August 2005

Phylogenetic novelties and geographic anomalies among tropical Verongida

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Phylogenetic placement of Hydra and relationships within Aplanulata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa).

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Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria

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Phylogenetic relationships of Proboscoida Broch, 1910 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): Are traditional morphological diagnostic characters relevant for the delimitation of lineages at the species, genus, and family levels?

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Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria)

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Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa

scholarly article by Allen G. Collins et al published 8 September 2008 in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria

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Phylogenomic analyses support traditional relationships within Cnidaria

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Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits.

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Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 June 2013

Phylogeny and evolution of glass sponges (porifera, hexactinellida).

scientific article published in June 2008

Phylogeny and morphological evolution of the so-called bougainvilliids (Hydrozoa, Hydroidolina)

scholarly article by María A. Mendoza-Becerril et al published 22 July 2018 in Zoologica Scripta

Phylogeny of Capitata and Corynidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) in light of mitochondrial 16S rDNA data

scholarly article by Allen G. Collins et al published January 2005 in Zoologica Scripta

Phylogeny of Opisthokonta and the evolution of multicellularity and complexity in Fungi and Metazoa

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Placozoa -- no longer a phylum of one.

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Predominant east to west colonizations across major oceanic barriers: Insights into the phylogeographic history of the hydroid superfamily Plumularioidea, suggested by a mitochondrial DNA barcoding marker

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia).

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Putting GenBank data on the map.

scientific article published in September 2013

Reassessment of the phylogenetic position of conulariids (?Ediacaran‐Triassic) within the subphylum medusozoa (phylum cnidaria)

scholarly article by Heyo Van Iten et al published January 2006 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Recent Insights into Cnidarian Phylogeny ⬇️

Recent introduction of the dominant tunicate, Pyura praeputialis (Urochordata, Pyuridae) to Antofagasta, Chile

scientific article published in August 2002

Reconstruction of family-level phylogenetic relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) using nuclear encoded housekeeping genes

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Redescription of Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830) (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean

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Relationships within Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) based on RNA-Seq data: an initial investigation

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Sexually Dimorphic Cubomedusa Carybdea sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in Seto, Wakayama, Japan

Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing

scientific article published in 2022

Solution to the phylogenetic enigma of Tetraplatia, a worm-shaped cnidarian

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Specimen collection: an essential tool

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Stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) of South Africa, with the description of Calvadosia lewisi sp. nov.

scientific article (publication date: 3 February 2017)

Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)

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Tackling the phylogenetic conundrum of Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Hydrozoa) by assessing competing tree topologies with targeted high-throughput sequencing

scientific article published in 2021

Tackling the phylogenetic conundrum of Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Hydrozoa) by assessing competing tree topologies with targeted high-throughput sequencing

The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): developing community resources to study diverse invertebrate genomes

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The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity

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The U.S. Ocean Biocode

The end of an enigmatic taxon:Eudoxia macrais the eudoxid stage of Lensia cossack(Siphonophora, Cnidaria)

scientific article published in 2013

The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

The importance of standardization for biodiversity comparisons: A case study using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) and metabarcoding to measure cryptic diversity on Mo'orea coral reefs, French Polynesia

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The perils of online biogeographic databases: a case study with the ‘monospecific’ genus Aegina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Narcomedusae)

scholarly article by Dhugal John Lindsay et al published 28 May 2017 in Marine Biology Research

The role of taxonomic expertise in interpretation of metabarcoding studies

scientific article published in 2021

The significance of moulting in Ecdysozoan evolution

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The time is right for an Antarctic biorepository network

scientific article published in 2022

Traits and depth: What do hydroids tell us about morphology and life‐history strategies in the deep sea?

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Upside-Down but Headed in the Right Direction: Review of the Highly Versatile Cassiopea xamachana System

scientific article published in 2018

Vansoestia caribensis gen. nov., sp. nov.: first report of the family Ianthellidae (Verongida, Demospongiae) in the Caribbean

scientific article (publication date: 11 May 2015)

When morphometry meets taxonomy: morphological variation and species boundaries in Proboscoida (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)

scientific article published in 2020

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