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What makes a jellyfish

Nature Ecology & Evolution volume 3, pages 724–725 (2019)Cite this article

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Three studies presenting genomes and transcriptomes from different life stages of nearly all major lineages of medusozoans present radically different gene expression profiles between life cycle stages and many medusa-specific genes.

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Fig. 1: Cnidarian genomes and proportions of differentially expressed genes of various medusozoan life cycle stages.

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