Nano-fast Nematocysts

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Article

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

Outside JEB column about the nematocysts, or "explosive cellular structures that fire a tiny barbed harpoon into predators and prey and inject a painful and paralyzing cocktail of chemicals" of jellyfish, anemones, corals, and freshwater hydra.

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This article was originally published in Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 209, issue 17, in 2006. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02466

Copyright

The authors. Published by the Company of Biologists.

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