Fig. 3: Cassiosomes are capable of killing brine shrimp. | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: Cassiosomes are capable of killing brine shrimp.

From: Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana

Fig. 3

a Dead 2-day old Artemia nauplii (orange arrow) with cassiosome (green arrow) attached to carapace, imaged within a microfluidic chamber. b Cassiosomes (green arrow) lodged into two different 1-day old Artemia nauplii (orange arrow). c 1-day old Artemia nauplii (orange arrow), immobilized following cassiosome (green arrow) attachment to the carapace with visibly discharged nematocysts (fuchsia arrows). Scale bars = 200 μm.

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