Jellyfish start out in a stationary polyp stage and later develop into jellyfish, when environmental conditions are right. The Morbakka virulenta, pictured here, is beginning to develop into a ...

For the project, scientists studied the polyp stage of the upside-down jellyfish, a juvenile life stage. During the polyp stage, jellyfish can live with or without symbiotic algae, setting up a ...

Phages can kill bacteria on or in a multicellular host organism, such as the polyp of the moon jellyfish. Phages specialize ...

as jellyfish play significant roles in oceanic food webs and nutrient cycling. Polyp Stage: The Early Life of a Jellyfish The ...

Turritopsis dohrnii follows a typical jellyfish life cycle, beginning as a larva and maturing into a polyp and then an adult medusa. However, it can revert to the polyp stage in response to stress ...