From CORAL Magazine, May/June 2013, Volume 10, Number 3
Nematocysts by Dr. Dieter Brockmann
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Contact reactions between young colonies of the coral
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mechanoreceptors are tuned to the movements of swimming
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References
Balasubramanian, P.G., et al. 2012. Proteome of Hydra
Nematocyst. J Biol Chem 287: 9672–681.
Beckmann, A. and S. Özbek. 2012. The Nematocyst: a molecular
map of the Cnidarian stinging organelle. Int J Dev Biol (in press),
doi: 10.1387/ijdb.113472ab.
Hidaka, M., K. Yurugi, S. Sunagawa, and R.A. Kinzie, III. 1997.
Contact reactions between young colonies of the coral
Pocillopora damicornis. Coral Reefs 16: 13–20.
Lubbock, R. and G.A. Shelton. 1981. Electrical activity following
cellular recognition of self and non-self in a sea anemone.
Nature 289: 59–60.
Mebs, D. 2009. Chemical biology of the mutualistic
relationships of sea anemones with fish and crustaceans.
Toxicon 54: 1071–74.
Özbek, S. 2011. The cnidarian nematocyst: a miniature
extracellular matrix within a secretory vesicle. Protoplasma 248:
635–40.
Patek, S. N., W.L. Korff, and R.L. Caldwell. 2004. Biomechanics:
Deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp. Nature 428:
819–20.
Schuhmacher, H. 1991. Korallenriffe—Verbreitung, Tierwelt,
Ökologie. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich, Vienna, Zurich.
Watson, G.M. and D.A. Herringer. 1989. Cnidocyte
mechanoreceptors are tuned to the movements of swimming
prey by chemoreceptors. Science 24: 1589–91.
