Gregory J. Highison’s research while affiliated with University of Nevada, Reno and other places

... As mentioned before, the coral tissue is heterogeneously covered with a series of hair-like structures called cilia -usually 10 to 20 µm in length (see Box 3, for an understanding of the cilia structure and its movement) -with regions of dense and scarce cilia presence (Eppard et al. 1989, Tambutté et al. 2020). Their occurrence is not only restricted to the epidermis facing the water column and endodermis facing the gastrovascular canal (Eppard et al. 1989), but they have also been found in the calicoblastic epitelium (calicodermis) responsible for skeletal formation (Tambutté et al. 2020). ...

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