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Hough transform implementation to evaluate the morphological variability of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia sp.)

View ORCID ProfileJustine Gadreaud, Céline Lacaux, Agnès Desolneux, View ORCID ProfileBertrand Martin-Garin, View ORCID ProfileAlain Thiéry
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.11.986984
Justine Gadreaud
1Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France
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Céline Lacaux
2Avignon Université, LMA EA 2151, F-84000, Avignon, France
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Agnès Desolneux
3CMLA (UMR CNRS 8536), ENS Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France
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Bertrand Martin-Garin
4Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France
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Alain Thiéry
1Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France
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Abstract

Variations of the animal body plan morphology and morphometry can be used as prognostic tools of their habitat quality. The potential of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia spp.) as a new model organism has been poorly tested. However, as a tetramerous symmetry organism, it exhibits some variations in radial symmetry number. A pertinent list of morphological – number of gonads – and morphometric characteristics – e.g. ratio of the gonads area on the umbrella area – has been established to describe the morphology of 19 specimens through an image analysis. The method uses for the first time the Hough transform to approximate the gonads and the umbrella by ellipses and automatically extracts the morphometric data. The results highlight two discriminant parameters: distance between the center of the gonads and the center of the umbrella, and the individual variability of the gonad eccentricity, both higher in jellyfishes with 5 gonads. Additionally, the relative size of the gonads is not different between tetramerous and non-tetramerous jellyfishes bringing some hypothesis about fitness advantages or disadvantages. Combined to ecotoxicological bioassays to better understand the causes of this developmental alteration, this optimizable method can become a powerful tool in the symmetry description of an in situ population.

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Hough transform implementation to evaluate the morphological variability of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia sp.)
Justine Gadreaud, Céline Lacaux, Agnès Desolneux, Bertrand Martin-Garin, Alain Thiéry
bioRxiv 2020.03.11.986984; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.11.986984
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Hough transform implementation to evaluate the morphological variability of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia sp.)
Justine Gadreaud, Céline Lacaux, Agnès Desolneux, Bertrand Martin-Garin, Alain Thiéry
bioRxiv 2020.03.11.986984; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.11.986984

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