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The sex lives of ctenophores: the influence of light, body size, and self-fertilization on the reproductive output of the sea walnut, Mnemiopsis leidyi.
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- Cytoplasmic Polyadenylation Is an Ancestral Hallmark of Early Development in Animals.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Independent Innexin Radiation Shaped Signaling in Ctenophores.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Full-Length Transcriptome Maps of Reef-Building Coral Illuminate the Molecular Basis of Calcification, Symbiosis, and Circadian Genes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Studying Ctenophora WBR Using Mnemiopsis leidyi.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Cultivable microbiota associated with Aurelia aurita and Mnemiopsis leidyi.MicrobiologyOpen · 2020Article
- The Mnemiopsis Genome Project Portal: integrating new gene expression resources and improving data visualization.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2020Article
- The ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi regulates egg production via conspecific communication.BMC ecology · 2018Article
- A reconstruction of sexual modes throughout animal evolution.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Ctenophores (comb jellies) are emerging as important animals for investigating fundamental questions across numerous branches of biology (e.g., evodevo, neuroscience and biogeography). A few ctenophore species including, most notably, Mnemiopsis leidyi, are considered as invasive species, adding to the significance of studying ctenophore ecology. Despite the growing interest in ctenophore biology, relatively little is known about their reproduction. Like most ctenophores, M. leidyi is a simultaneous hermaphrodite capable of self-fertilization. In this study, we assess the influence of light on spawning, the effect of body size on spawning likelihood and reproductive output, and the cost of self-fertilization on egg viability in M. leidyi. Our results suggest that M. leidyi spawning is more strongly influenced by circadian rhythms than specific light cues and that body size significantly impacts spawning and reproductive output. Mnemiopsis leidyi adults that spawned alone produced a lower percentage of viable embryos versus those that spawned in pairs, suggesting that self-fertilization may be costly in this species. These results provide insight into the reproductive ecology of M. leidyi and provide a fundamental resource for researchers working with them in the laboratory.
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