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On a Remarkable Process of Bud Formation in a Gymnoblastic Hydroid (Heterostephanus sp.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. J Rees
W. J Rees
Affiliation:
Rescarch Assostamt at the Plymouth Laboratory
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The process of asexual reproduction, described below, is, as far as the writer is aware, unique among hydroids. In all known species of hydroids in which an asexual bud formation has been described (e.g. in Hydra), the mouth and oral tentacles develop at the free end of the bud and the proximal or fixed end becomes the base. The sequence of development of medusa buds is essentially similar. This method applies also to budding in other Coelenterates. In the present instance the bud instead of growing out “head first,” came off “tail first,” came off “tail first” –the proximal end developing mouth and oral tentacles and the free end becoming the stalk. I can find no recoid of such a method having been described before.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , March 1937 , pp. 747 - 751
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1937

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