Movement and storage of nematocysts across development in the nudibranch Berghia stephanieae (Valdes, 2005).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intracellular sequestration requires specialized cellular and molecular mechanisms allowing a predator to retain and use specific organelles that once belonged to its prey. Little is known about how common cellular mechanisms, like phagocytosis, can be modified to selectively internalize and store foreign structures. One form of defensive sequestration involves animals that sequester stinging organelles (nematocysts) from their cnidarian prey. While it has been hypothesized that nematocysts are identified by specialized phagocytic cells for internalization and storage, little is known about the cellular and developmental mechanisms of this process in any metazoan lineage. This knowledge gap is mainly due to a lack of genetically tractable model systems among predators an

SUBMITTER: Goodheart JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016961 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature