Journal Articles of Relevance

Piriano, S. DeVito, D. Schmich, J. Bouillon, J. Boero, F. 2004. Reverse development in Cnidaria. NRC Research: Canadian Journal of Zoology. 82:1748-1754.
-The authors wanted to study the reverse development or ontogeny of Cnidarians and how these animals can reactivate earlier stages of development leading to rejuvenation and how these studies relate to ecology and unfavorable conditions.
- The simple life cycle of the Cnidarians has many known conversions leading to form resting states by shrinking and decrease in metabolic processes when the going gets tough. This can also be known as renovation. Also there are certain species that can regenerate damaged or lost organs and tissues and new polyps formed from individual ones.
- While this paper had no real methods or results the author collected data from previous research that related to the development of an older stage to a previous stage of development in many species of Cnidarians.
- The authors found, through research that the medusa stages have the ability to bud and produce polyp stages in some species and polyps can regenerate into planula larvae in others. These cases are due to many unfavorable factors such as current, starvation, mechanical stress, and temperature and salinity changes.