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Aequorea victoria

Cnidarians

Aequorea victoria, also called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish found off the west coast of North America, from the Bering Sea to southern California, with particular abundance in Puget Sound. It is almost entirely transparent and colorless, with up to 150 tentacles and roughly 100 radial canals in mature individuals. The species is best known as the natural source of two proteins central to modern biology, the photoprotein aequorin and green fluorescent protein, both involved in its bioluminescence; the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein as a laboratory tool earned Osamu Shimomura and colleagues the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Marine 1
Scientific Name
Aequorea victoria 1
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1. Aequorea victoria (Wikipedia)
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    Aequorea victoria, also called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish found off the west coast of North America, from the Bering Sea to southern California, with particular abundance in Puget Sound.
  • Wikidata Q133055 (P225 taxon name)
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