Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved in bioluminescence.

Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved in bioluminescence.

What are commonly called jellyfish are medusae belonging to three Classes of the Cnidaria — the Hydrozoa, the Scyphozoa, and the Cubozoa. Since the morphology and life history of all three groups is broadly similar, it is practical to treat them together here.

2012年9月7日 · Research using hundreds of thousands of harvested Aequorea victoria hydromedusae between the 1960s and late 1980s in Friday Harbor, Washington, resulted in synthetic production of two components of the luminescent system of this jellyfish, a luminescent protein aequorin and GFP.

Bioluminescence and other factoids about Aequorea, a hydromedusa Aequorea victoria is a jellyfish in Puget Sound, Washington State, from which the luminescent protein aequorin and the fluorescent molecule GFP (green fluorescent protein) have been extracted, purified, and eventually cloned.

Craspedacusta sowerbii or peach blossom jellyfish[1] is a species of freshwater hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa cnidarian. Hydromedusan jellyfish differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because they have a muscular, shelf-like structure called a velum on the ventral surface, attached to the bell margin.

Biology/Natural History: This is the largest of our local Hydrozoan jellyfish, though the Scyphozoan jellyfish can grow much larger. Feeds mainly on gelatinous plankton such as Mitrocomella polydiademata and other hydromedusae, on ctenophores, on polychaetes, and on appendicularians.

Identification: Craspedacusta sowerbii is a hydrozoan (Phylum Cnidaria, Class Hydrozoa), which is most easily identified when it takes the form of a small, bell-shaped jellyfish, known as a hydromedusa. The hydromedusa measures about 5–25 mm in diameter, and is translucent with a whitish or greenish tinge (Peard, 2002; Pennak, 1989).

2010年8月20日 · Hydromedusae form the largest group of cnidarians and are generally smaller then the true jellyfish (typically only a few millimeters to centimenters at maximum size). Hydromedusae are distinquished from true jellyfish by prodcing their eggs and sperm under the bell, but on the outside of the animal, while true jellyfish produce eggs inside the ...

The medusae of hydrozoans are smaller than those of typical jellyfish, ranging from 0.5 to 6 cm (0.20 to 2.36 in) in diameter. Although most hydrozoans have a medusoid stage, this is not always free-living and in many species exists solely as a sexually reproducing bud on …