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Evidence for dynamic and multiple roles for huntingtin in Ciona intestinalis [PDF]
, 2013 Although mutations in the huntingtin gene (HTT) due to poly-Q expansion cause neuropathology in humans (Huntington's disease; HD), the normal function(s) of the gene and its protein (HTT) remain obscure.
Brown, Euan R. +2 more
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eLife, 2017 The ascidian embryo is an ideal system to investigate how cell position is determined during embryogenesis. Using 3D timelapse imaging and computational methods we analyzed the planar cell divisions in ascidian early embryos and found that spindles in ...
Rémi Dumollard +7 more
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Antioxidants, 2021 Sperm quality assessment is the first step for evaluating male fertility and includes the estimation of sperm concentration, motility, and morphology.
Alessandra Gallo +3 more
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Animal Microbiome, 2020 Background Gut microbiota plays important roles in host animal metabolism, homeostasis and environmental adaptation. However, the interplay between the gut microbiome and urochordate ascidian, the most closet relative of vertebrate, remains less explored.
Jiankai Wei +6 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 Oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (VP) superfamily neuropeptides are distributed in not only vertebrates but also diverse invertebrates. However, no VPergic innervation of invertebrates has ever been documented.
Tsuyoshi Kawada +6 more
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Migration of germline progenitor cells is directed by sphingosine-1-phosphate signalling in a basal chordate. [PDF]
, 2015 The colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri continuously regenerates entire bodies in an asexual budding process. The germ line of the newly developing bodies is derived from migrating germ cell precursors, but the signals governing this homing process ...
Bui, Connor +4 more
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Endozoicomonas are specific, facultative symbionts of sea squirts
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Ascidians are marine filter feeders and harbor diverse microbiota that can exhibit a high degree of host-specificity. Pharyngeal samples of Scandinavian and Mediterranean ascidians were screened for consistently associated bacteria by culture-dependent ...
Lars Schreiber +6 more
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Review: Marine natural products [PDF]
, 2005 This review covers the literature published in 2003 for marine natural products, with 619 citations (413 for the period January to December 2003) referring to compounds isolated from marine microorganisms and phytoplankton, green algae, brown algae, red ...
Blunt, John W. +4 more
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Barcoding of the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) indicates a recent introduction of Ciona savignyi into New Zealand and provides a rapid method for Ciona species discrimination [PDF]
, 2012 Mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene sequencing (DNA barcoding) of Ciona specimens from New Zealand (NZ) led to the first record of the solitary ascidian Ciona savignyi in the Southern Hemisphere. We sought to quantify C.
Cary, S. Craig +4 more
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A novel third complement component C3 gene of Ciona intestinalis expressed in the endoderm at the early developmental stages [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2013 The third complement component (C3) in ascidian was reported to function as an opsonin to enhance phagocytosis and as a chemotactic factor for phagocytes, indicating that ascidian C3 works in mesodermal cavity as a humoral factor like vertebrate C3s.
T Hibino, M Nonaka
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