Metamorphosis in the Cnidaria

By W. Müller, T. Leitz. 2002

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Larvae of Pocillopora damicornis (Anthozoa) settle and metamorphose in response to surface-biofilm bacteria (2011, background): “…of many antho zoans involves a planula stage — a dispersal phase in which the larva continues to swim in the water column and across substrata until it becomes metamorphically competent and encounters a suitable substratum on which to settle and metamorphose into a polyp (Müller & Leitz 2002).”
Coral larvae: From gametes to recruits (2011, background): “An earlier review by Chia and Bickell (1978) and amore recent one by Müller and Leitz (2002) revealed that experimental analysis of metamorphosis within the cnidarian class Anthozoa (both scleractinians and alcyonarians) was, and still is, much less advanced than in the Scyphozoa and the Hydrozoa.”
Insecticides and a fungicide affect multiple coral life stages (2007, background): “It is thought that metamorphosis in cnidarians is induced, at least in part, by the release of neuropeptides that spread through the larvae following the stimulation of sensory cells by external cues (Müller & Leitz 2002).”
Substrate choice and settlement preferences of planula larvae of five Scyphozoa (Cnidaria) from German Bight, North Sea (2007, background): “genic cues (Müller and Leitz 2002).”