DATE2024.11.13 #Press Releases

The highly poisonous "skipjack tuna" - part of its reproductive ecology

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Summary

A joint research team led by Kohei Oguchi, a lecturer in the Department of Biology at Tokai University, Hisanori Kohtsuka, a technical specialist at the Misaki Marine Biological Station, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Takeshi Yamamoto, a keeper at the Enoshima Aquarium, and Casey W Dunn, a professor at Yale University, has revealed that gonodendrons (reproductive cells) in the structure called gonodendron, released by a species of poisonous jellyfish, the bonefish, are immature when released. The research results were published in Scientific Reports on October 3, 2024.

Figure: Part of the reproductive branch structure and reproductive ecology of the bonefish, Pterois volitans

Links: Tokai University, Enoshima Aquarium（in Japanese）

Journals

Journal name	Scientific Reports
Title of paper	Physalia gonodendra are not yet sexually mature when released