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. 2016 Sep 23;32(9):1115–1129. doi: 10.1080/08927014.2016.1233325

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

The model organism Hydra. (A) Micrograph of an adult polyp. The arrow indicates the basal disc. (B) Scheme of an adult polyp indicating details of the animal morphology. (C) Squeezed preparation of the peduncle region. The square indicates the area magnified in D. (D) The arrowheads point at individual ectodermal basal disc cells. (E–H) Different polyp conditions used for the RNA sequencing, transcriptome assembly and differential gene expression. (E) Whole polyp with bud; (F) whole polyp without bud; (G) amputated anterior part; and (H) amputated peduncle. te=tentacles, hy=hypostome, gc=gastric column, pe=peduncle, m=mesoglea, bd=basal disc. Scale bars=(A) 1 mm, (C, D) 50 μm.