strobilation
zoology
Also known as: strobila, strobilization, strobilus
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scyphozoan life cycle
- In cnidarian: Reproduction and life cycles
This process, called strobilation, results in eight-armed, free-swimming ephyrae.
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variation of fission process
- In binary fission
and scyphostome polyps, is called strobilation. Commonly, this results in a chain, called a strobilus, of the fission products—the proglottids of tapeworms and the ephyrae of scyphozoan jellyfish; each proglottid or ephyra matures in turn and separates from the end of the strobilus. A few metazoan (multicellular) species regularly undergo…
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