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THE environmental conditions under which strobilation of Aurelia scyphistomæ occurs are incompletely understood. Berrill1 in a review suggests three factors as being of particular significance: a heavy diet of suitable food prior to metamorphosis; a definite, low critical temperature, usually the winter minimum; and a good supply of food and oxygen at the critical period. Thiel2, as a result of observations on naturally-occurring populations of scy-phistomæ, largely supports these suggestions and places particular emphasis on the food supply prior to strobilation. Laboratory experiments have produced conflicting results3.
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CUSTANCE, D. Light as an Inhibitor of Strobilation in Aurelia aurita. Nature 204, 1219–1220 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041219a0
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