...Xiao-Xue Yang; Yu Zhang; Yue-Him Wong; Pei-Yuan Qian ABSTRACT The larvae of many sessile marine invertebrates go through a settlement process, during which planktonic larvae attach to a substrate and metamorphose into sessile juveniles. Larval attachment and metamorphosis (herein defined...

.... These results suggested that the reduction of NOS and sGC expression to an appropriate level in the cyprid stage is important for the initiation of larval attachment and metamorphosis in B. amphitrite . The endogenous level of NO was manipulated using both chemical and enzymatic methods. SNP, one...