A novel endocast technique providing a 3D quantitative analysis of the gastrovascular system in Rhizostoma pulmo: An unexpected through-gut in cnidaria

• Massimo Avian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Massimo Avian, Gregorio Motta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: avian@units.it

  Affiliation Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5562-6471

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• Lucia Mancini,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  Affiliation Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Trieste, Italy

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• Marco Voltolini,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Earth Science Ardito Desio, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

  Affiliation Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Trieste, Italy

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• Delphine Bonnet,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation MARBEC, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Montpellier, France

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• Diego Dreossi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Trieste, Italy

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• Vanessa Macaluso,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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• Nicole Pillepich,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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• Laura Prieto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Group Ecosystem Oceanography, Department of Ecology and Coastal Management, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucia (CSIC), Cádiz, Spain

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• Andreja Ramšak,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia

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• Antonio Terlizzi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy

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• Gregorio Motta

  Contributed equally to this work with: Massimo Avian, Gregorio Motta

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy

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