Aiptasia 1 (IMAGE)

Heidelberg University

Aiptasia 1

Caption

Pictured is an early planula larval stage of the sea anemone Aiptasia (cyan nuclei and green stinging cells) preying on a crustacean nauplius (green) of the copepod Tisbe sp.

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Ira Mägele and Ulrike Engel

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