Jellyfish nervous systems

A Functional Biology of Scyphozoa

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Advanced optics in a jellyfish eye

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Medusan morphospace: phylogenetic constraints, biomechanical solutions, and ecological consequences

Costello, J. H., Colin, S. P., & Dabiri, J. O. (2008) · Invertebrate Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2008.00126.x · Cited by 142 · see citing works

Central Neural Circuitry in the Jellyfish <i>Aglantha</i>

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Clytia hemisphaerica: a jellyfish cousin joins the laboratory

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Do jellyfish have central nervous systems?

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Box Jellyfish Use Terrestrial Visual Cues for Navigation

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Bilaterally symmetrical rhopalial nervous system of the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora

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Evolutionary origin of rhopalia: insights from cellular‐level analyses of Otx and POU expression patterns in the developing rhopalial nervous system

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Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator

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Comparative connectomics

van den Heuvel, M. P., Bullmore, E. T., & Sporns, O. (2016) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.03.001 · Cited by 328 · see citing works

The Jellyfish Cassiopea Exhibits a Sleep-like State

Nath, R. D., Bedbrook, C. N., Abrams, M. J., Basinger, T., Bois, J. S., Prober, D. A., Sternberg, P. W., Gradinaru, V., & Goentoro, L. (2017) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.014 · Cited by 260 · see citing works

The origins and evolution of sleep

Keene, A. C., & Duboué, E. R. (2018) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.159533 · Cited by 224 · see citing works

Classification of biological and bioinspired aquatic systems: A review

Salazar, R., Fuentes, V., & Abdelkefi, A. (2017) · Ocean Engineering · doi:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2017.11.012 · Cited by 205 · see citing works

An Autonomous Soft Actuator with Light‐Driven Self‐Sustained Wavelike Oscillation for Phototactic Self‐Locomotion and Power Generation

Yang, L., Chang, L., Hu, Y., Huang, M., Ji, Q., Lü, P., Liu, J., Chen, W., & Wu, Y. (2020) · Advanced Functional Materials · doi:10.1002/adfm.201908842 · Cited by 202 · see citing works

Light‐Driven Self‐Oscillating Actuators with Phototactic Locomotion Based on Black Phosphorus Heterostructure

Hu, Y., Ji, Q., Huang, M., Chang, L., Zhang, C., Wu, G., Zi, B., Bao, N., Chen, W., & Wu, Y. (2021) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202108058 · Cited by 169 · see citing works

Back to the Basics: Cnidarians Start to Fire

Bosch, T. C. G., Klimovich, A., Domazet-Lošo, T., Gründer, S., Holstein, T. W., Jékely, G., Miller, D. J., Murillo-Rincon, A. P., Rentzsch, F., Richards, G. S., et al. (2017) · Trends in Neurosciences · doi:10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.005 · Cited by 144 · see citing works

The genome of the jellyfish Aurelia and the evolution of animal complexity

Gold, D. A., Katsuki, T., Li, Y., Yan, X., Regulski, M., Ibberson, D., Holstein, T. W., Steele, R. E., Jacobs, D. K., & Greenspan, R. J. (2018) · Nature Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0719-8 · Cited by 142 · see citing works

Diversity of Cnidarian Muscles: Function, Anatomy, Development and Regeneration

Leclère, L., & Röttinger, É. (2017) · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · doi:10.3389/fcell.2016.00157 · Cited by 100 · see citing works

A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience

Weissbourd, B., Momose, T., Nair, A., Kennedy, A., Hunt, B., & Anderson, D. J. (2021) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.10.021 · Cited by 97 · see citing works

Physiology and Evolution of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels in Early Diverging Animal Phyla: Cnidaria, Placozoa, Porifera and Ctenophora

Senatore, A., Raiss, H., & Le, P. (2016) · Frontiers in Physiology · doi:10.3389/fphys.2016.00481 · Cited by 74 · see citing works

Microplastics ingestion in the ephyra stage of Aurelia sp. triggers acute and behavioral responses

Costa, E., Gambardella, C., Piazza, V., Vassalli, M., Sbrana, F., Lavorano, S., Garaventa, F., & Faimali, M. (2019) · Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.109983 · Cited by 70 · see citing works

Light‐Driven Self‐Oscillating Actuators with Phototactic Locomotion Based on Black Phosphorus Heterostructure

Hu, Y., Ji, Q., Huang, M., Chang, L., Zhang, C., Wu, G., Zi, B., Bao, N., Chen, W., & Wu, Y. (2021) · Angewandte Chemie · doi:10.1002/ange.202108058 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Inactivity Is Nycthemeral, Endogenously Generated, Homeostatically Regulated, and Melatonin Modulated in a Free-Living Platyhelminth Flatworm

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The nematode C. elegans senses airborne sound

Iliff, A. J., Wang, C., Ronan, E. A., Hake, A. E., Guo, Y., Li, X., Zhang, X., Zheng, M., Liu, J., Grosh, K., et al. (2021) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.08.035 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Modern genomic tools reveal the structural and cellular diversity of cnidarian nervous systems

Rentzsch, F., Juliano, C. E., & Galliot, B. (2019) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2018.12.004 · Cited by 36 · see citing works

Neural nets

Hejnol, A., & Rentzsch, F. (2015) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.001 · Cited by 30 · see citing works

Limited ingestion, rapid egestion and no detectable impacts of microbeads on the moon jellyfish, Aurelia aurita.

Sucharitakul, P., Pitt, K., & Welsh, D. (2020) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111208 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Photo-movement of coral larvae influences vertical positioning in the ocean

Mulla, A. J., Lin, C., Takahashi, S., & Nozawa, Y. (2021) · Coral Reefs · doi:10.1007/s00338-021-02141-7 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Medusa: A Review of an Ancient Cnidarian Body Form

Ames, C. L. (2018) · Results and problems in cell differentiation · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92486-1_7 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

EVALUATION OF EUTHANASIA OF MOON JELLYFISH (AURELIA AURITA) USING SIMPLE SALT SOLUTIONS

Doerr, M., & Stoskopf, M. K. (2019) · Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine · doi:10.1638/2018-01510 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Sleep Origins: Restful Jellyfish Are Sleeping Jellyfish

Lesku, J. A., & Ly, L. M. T. (2017) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.024 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Dynamic Model for Life History of Scyphozoa

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Distinct stem-like cell populations facilitate functional regeneration of the Cladonema medusa tentacle

Fujita, S., Takahashi, M., Kumano, G., Kuranaga, E., Miura, M., & Nakajima, Y.-I. (2023) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002435 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Bioinspired artificial phototaxis and phototropism enabled by photoresponsive smart materials

Yang, X. J., Chen, Y., Wang, F., Chen, S., Cao, Z., Feng, W., Wang, L., & Feng, W. (2025) · Materials Today · doi:10.1016/j.mattod.2025.05.004 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

On the origin of appetite: GLWamide in jellyfish represents an ancestral satiety neuropeptide

Thoma, V., Sakai, S., Nagata, K., Ishii, Y., Maruyama, S., Abe, A., Kondo, S., Kawata, M., Hamada, S., Deguchi, R., et al. (2023) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2221493120 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

Miranda, L. S., & Collins, A. G. (2019) · PeerJ · doi:10.7717/peerj.6693 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Developing Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) for Free-swimming Tests in the Laboratory and in the Field

Xu, N. W., Townsend, J. P., Costello, J. H., Colin, S. P., Gemmell, B. J., & Dabiri, J. O. (2021) · BIO-PROTOCOL · doi:10.21769/bioprotoc.3974 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Ethics of Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish Modification and Invertebrate ResearchPreprint

Xu, N. W., Lenczewska, O., Wieten, S., Federico, C., & Dabiri, J. (2020) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0008.v1 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Bioactivity Profiling and Untargeted Metabolomics of Microbiota Associated with Mesopelagic Jellyfish Periphylla Periphylla

Oppong-Danquah, E., Miranda, M., Blümel, M., & Taşdemir, D. (2023) · Marine Drugs · doi:10.3390/md21020129 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

A multiphysics model for fluid-structure-electrophysiology interaction in rowing propulsion

Nitti, A., Torre, M., Reali, A., Kiendl, J., & Tullio, M. D. D. (2023) · Applied Mathematical Modelling · doi:10.1016/j.apm.2023.08.003 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

Ethics of biohybrid robotics and invertebrate research: biohybrid robotic jellyfish as a case study

Xu, N. W., Lenczewska, O., Wieten, S., Federico, C. A., & Dabiri, J. O. (2025) · Bioinspiration & Biomimetics · doi:10.1088/1748-3190/adc0d4 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

Information Processes

Knoflacher, M. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-662-69423-7_6 · Cited by 9 · see citing works

Generating Transgenic Reporter Lines for Studying Nervous System Development in the Cnidarian Nematostella vectensis

Rentzsch, F., Renfer, E., & Technau, U. (2019) · Methods in molecular biology · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9732-9_3 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Deep reinforcement learning for tracking a moving target in jellyfish-like swimming

Chen, Y., & Yang, Y. (2025) · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · doi:10.1017/jfm.2025.10470 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Simulating Soft-Bodied Swimmers with Particle-Based Physics

Johnson, C., Philippides, A. O., & Husbands, P. (2019) · Soft Robotics · doi:10.1089/soro.2018.0027 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Consilience in the Peripheral Sensory Adaptation Response

Wong, W. (2021) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2021.727551 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Neuronal Synchronization and Bidirectional Activity Spread Explain Efficient Swimming in a Whole-Body Model of Hydrozoan Jellyfish

Pallasdies, F., Norton, P., Schleimer, J., & Schreiber, S. (2025) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1370-24.2025 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Approaches and findings in histological and micromorphological research on Rhizostomeae

Holst, S., Tiseo, G. R., Djeghri, N., & Sötje, I. (2024) · Advances in marine biology · doi:10.1016/bs.amb.2024.07.005 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Molecular and cellular basis of life cycle transition provides new insights into ecological adaptation in jellyfish

Li, Y., Peng, S., Liu, Y., Sun, K. W., Wu, L., Yu, Z., He, K., Ma, Y., Wang, F., Xu, P., et al. (2024) · The Innovation Geoscience · doi:10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2024.100063 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Turning kinematics of the scyphomedusa Aurelia aurita

Costello, J. H., Colin, S. P., Gemmell, B. J., Dabiri, J. O., & Kanso, E. A. (2024) · Bioinspiration & Biomimetics · doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ad1db8 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

The directional control of phototaxis in sea stars (Protoreaster nodosus)

Po, T., Korob, L., & McHenry, M. J. (2025) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.249293 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

How Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Hydractinia Is Informing the Evolution of Cnidarian Sensory Systems

Schnitzler, C. E., Song, J., & de Jong, D. (2025) · Integrative and Comparative Biology · doi:10.1093/icb/icaf090 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Phototactic Movement of Battery-Powered and Self-Charging Robot Swarms

Cheraghi, A. R., Vila, F. S., & Graffi, K. (2020) · Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS) · doi:10.1109/acirs49895.2020.9162628 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Hydroidfest 2016: celebrating a renaissance in hydrozoan research

Dupré, C., Grasis, J. A., Steele, R. E., Schnitzler, C. E., & Juliano, C. E. (2017) · EvoDevo · doi:10.1186/s13227-017-0070-1 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Recent Trends in Invertebrate Neuroscience

Gelperin, A. (2017) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456757.013.1 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Brain Evolution and Comparative Neuroanatomy

Napoli, A. J., & Powers, A. S. (2020) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0000088.pub4 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Orientation Behavior and Feeding Ecology of the Scyphomedusa Chrysaora fuscescens

Zeman, S. M. (2015) · Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon) · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Species-specific phototaxis of coral larvae causes variation in vertical positioning during dispersalPreprint

Mulla, A. J., Lin, C., Takahashi, S., & Nozawa, Y. (2020) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2020.07.31.230235 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Deciphering the ancestral mechanisms of neural regeneration through single-cell analyses of jellyfish rhopalium repair

Li, Y., Wang, F., Sun, T. R., Ma, X., Yu, Z., Xu, Z., Wang, W., Xing, Y., Peng, S., Wang, L., et al. (2026) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.aeb8034 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

The diversity of glycan chains in jellyfish mucin of three Cubozoan species: the contrast in molecular evolution rates of the peptide chain and Glycans

Kaneko, T., Tanaka, S., Sugiyama, M., Kaise, S., Inui, H., & Ushida, K. (2024) · Glycobiology · doi:10.1093/glycob/cwae090 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites

Lewis, B. M., Suggett, D. J., Prentis, P. J., & Nothdurft, L. D. (2025) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0315623 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Evolution of Oligodendroglia and Myelin

Verkhratsky, A., Yi, C., Niu, J., & Butt, A. M. (2025) · Advances in neurobiology · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-87919-7_2 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Soft-body animal motion control and its inspiration for designing biomimetic robots

Gong, Z., Zheng, N., & Lu, H. (2023) · Scientia Sinica Vitae · doi:10.1360/ssv-2022-0188 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Cholinergic regulation of sleep in the upside-down jellyfish CassiopeaPreprint

Abrams, M. J., Ohdera, A. H., Francis, D. A., Donayre, O., Chen, H., Lu, K. Y., & Harland, R. M. (2024) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2024.10.04.616757 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Jellyfish, Global Changes, and Marine Ecosystem Services

Primo, A. L., & Marques, S. C. (2021) · Encyclopedia of the UN sustainable development goals · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71064-8_31-1 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Distinct stem-like cell populations facilitate functional regeneration of the Cladonema medusa tentaclePreprint

Fujita, S., Takahashi, M., Kumano, G., Kuranaga, E., Miura, M., & Nakajima, Y.-I. (2022) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2022.12.11.519944 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Light-induced oocyte maturation in the hydrozoan clytia hemisphaerica

Quiroga-Artigas, G. (2017) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/df70f614z7812z4366z9e5bz28f0d76ac26b · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Big History, Value, and the Art of Continued Existence

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A universal law of sensory adaptation

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Deceiving Autonomous Drones

Hutchinson, W. (2020) · International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism · doi:10.4018/ijcwt.2020070101

Jellyfish, Global Changes, and Marine Ecosystem Services

Primo, A. L., & Marques, S. C. (2022) · Encyclopedia of the UN sustainable development goals · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98536-7_31

Towards a new formalist approach to short fiction: Janice Galloway’s Jellyfish as a case study

Gstrein, I. (2024) · Short Fiction in Theory and Practice · doi:10.1386/fict_00102_1

Satiety differentially modulates feeding steps in the jellyfish Cladonema

Mashiba, G., Tanimoto, H., & Thoma, V. (2025) · iScience · doi:10.1016/j.isci.2025.112192

Sleeping upside-down: Knockdown of a sleep-associated gene induces daytime sleep in the jellyfish Cassiopea

Abrams, M. J., Ohdera, A. H., Francis, D. A., Donayre, O., Chen, H., Lu, K. Y., Hsu, C. Y., Zeigler, H., & Harland, R. M. (2025) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2505074122

Paradoxes in the Ontological Classification of Glia—Evidence for an Important New Class of Brain Cells with Primary Functions in Iron Regulation

Milward, E. A., Hood, R. J., Lin, C.-A., Bettencourt, C., Acquah, E., Brooks, J., Collingwood, J. F., Kagawa, Y., Richardson, S. J., Wu, Y., et al. (2026) · Cells · doi:10.3390/cells15060511

Microbiome and metabolomics provide insights into the metamorphosis and settlement in the jellyfish Aurelia coerulea inhibited by Bacillus pacificus

Guo, X., Li, M., Ahmad, M., Liu, X., Zhang, S., Yu, Z., Zhao, Y., Sun, H., & Zhang, Y. (2026) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.119760

Illustrated Morphological Glossary of Hydromedusae. In dataMares: Ecosystem Dynamics

Mendoza-Becerril, M., Estrada-González, M. C., Mazariegos‐Villarreal, A., RESTREPO-AVENDAÑO, L., Villar-Beltrán, R., & Agüero, J. (2020) · UC San Diego · doi:10.6075/j0445k1f

Taxonomic approaches for studying the jellyfish species along the Indian coast and their diversity

Saravanan, R. (2025) · Eprints@CMFRI Open Access Institutional Repository (Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute)

Status and diversity of Jellyfishes around Indian Coastal waters

Saravanan, R., Ranjith, L., Laxmilatha, P., Roul, S. K., Dash, G., Behera, R., Kumawat, T., Ramkumar, S., Viswambharan, D., Sreeram, M. P., et al. (2018) · doi:10.13140/rg.2.2.30545.89444 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Jellyfishes-Diversity, Biology-Importance inConservation In: ICAR Sponsored Winter School on Recent Advances in Fishery Biology Techniques for Biodiversity Evaluation and Conservation, 1-21 December 2018, Kochi.

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Biophysical Interactions of Jellyfish on the Great Barrier Reef

Schlaefer, J. A., & Kingsford, M. J. (2024) · CRC Press eBooks · doi:10.1201/9781003320425-17

JELLYFISH STINGS: COMPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT

Morsy, T. A., Shoukry, N. M., & FOUAD, M. A. (2020) · Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology · doi:10.21608/jesp.2020.113048 · Cited by 3 · see citing works