Among marine invertebrates, bryozoans are small, not well known, and complex to identify. Nevertheless, they offer unique opportunities for whole-body generation research, because of their colonial, modular mode of growth. Here, we describe detailed methods for collection of bryozoans from a range of environments, sample preparation and identification, culture and feeding, spawning and breeding, marking colonies for growth studies, and histological preparation.
Keywords: Anatomy; Brown bodies; Bryozoans; Budding; Collection; Culture; Feeding; Growth; Histology; Larvae; Regression; Settlement; Spawning; Whole-body regeneration.
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