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 ...

The larva will move about in the current until it finds a hard surface to establish itself. It will then start to mature and grow. Larvae mature into polyps, which will then bud off and mature into ...

In some cases, a new arm would begin to regrow. Cordeiro’s work for the lab is focused on juvenile jellyfish known as polyps. The researchers chop and separate the cells of the polyp. “You start to ...

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

This fingernail-sized, unassuming creature possesses the rare ability to revert back to its juvenile polyp stage after reaching maturity, which is an early stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish ...

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

In one of these stages, the jellyfish attach to the seafloor as a polyp — basically a stalk of tissue — and attempt to stay alive. When conditions are right, they can reproduce asexually by ...

If the T. dohrnii jellyfish is exposed to environmental stress, physical assault, or is sick or old, it can revert to the polyp stage, forming a new polyp colony.

Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish ... man-of-war comprises four separate polyps. It gets its name from the uppermost ...

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 ...

How the jellyfish reverses time Like any other jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii begins its life as a small larva, slowly developing into a polyp, a stage that looks a bit like a tiny anemone.