Sentences with phrase «of nematocysts»
Yet high - resolution 3D images of the nematocysts show a previously unknown complexity and similarity in the biomechanics of discharge.
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Ethanol was used to trigger discharge of the nematocysts.
But Fenner's team found that when applied to the sting of Physalia physalis, a jellyfish newly identified in Australian waters, vinegar actually caused 30 per cent of nematocysts to fire (Medical Journal of Australia, vol 158, p 498).
Not exact matches
The comparative study is based on a comprehensive proteome analysis of isolated Cnidarian nematocysts by the Heidelberg researchers.
The eponymous cell type of the 500 - million - year - old Cnidaria is the cnidocyte, which contains microscopically small organelles — the stinging capsules also known as cnidocysts or nematocysts.
In fact, structurally comparable weapons systems, called nematocysts as well, are found in a group of modern protozoans, the dinoflagellates.
«The stinging nematocysts of cnidarians closely resemble those of dinoflagellates, but the ballistic mechanisms are different and they don't appear to share any genes.»
Whereas the acceleration of cnidarian nematocysts is driven by high internal pressure, the dinoflagellates lack the necessary metabolic pathways.