Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous cnidarians of the class Anthozoa, including the corals and sea anemones, that grow singly or in colonies and live as polyps, without a medusa stage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the Anthozoa; anthozoic.
- noun One of the Anthozoa; an anthozoön.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Anthozoa.
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- noun marine biology A marine invertebrate of the class
Anthozoa , such as asea anemone orcoral
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
Etymologies
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Examples
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In turn, anthozoan species seem to have lost their group A HOX9-14 gene (present in hydrozoans; inconclusive data for scyphozoans; figure 1).
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Hill A, Wagner A, Hill M (2003) Hox and paraHox genes from the anthozoan Parazoanthus parasiticus.
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Neuronal GSX expression, as reported from several hydrozoan and anthozoan species, is clearly more significant.
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Hydra magnipapillata full genome and have not been identified until now in other hydrozoan or scyphozoan species, being only known from the anthozoan
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In some cases, gene relationships among cnidarian groups are congruent with the species phylogeny: hydrozoan sequences are sister-group to scyphozoan sequences, with anthozoan sequences branching basally to this ensemble.
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Development 134: 2549-2560. de Jong DM, Hislop NR, Hayward DC, Reece-Hoyes JS, Pontynen PC, et al. (2006) Components of both major axial patterning systems of the Bilateria are differentially expressed along the primary axis of a 'radiate' animal, the anthozoan cnidarian Acropora millepora.
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