coelenteron


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coelenteron

[sə′len·tə‚rän]
(invertebrate zoology)
The internal cavity of cnidarians.
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Contraction may be a means of producing a low oxygen concentration in the coelenteron, resulting in lower metabolic rates and in savings of energy or carbon regardless of the external oxygen level (Sebens, 1987b).
Factors Controlling the Expansion Behavior of Favia favus (Cnidaria: Scleractinia): Effects of Light, Flow, and Planktonic Prey
Each wash consisted of adding fresh FSW, irrigating the coelenteron with a Pasteur pipette, and then waiting 3 mm before changing the water again.
Preferential Expulsion of Dividing Algal Cells as a Mechanism for Regulating Algal-Cnidarian Symbiosis
The circular form is donut-shaped with a hole where the coelenteron extends up each tentacle (Fig.
Cellular Growth of Host and Symbiont in a Cnidarian-Zooxanthellar Symbiosis

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