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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Environmental perturbations evoke down-regulation of metabolism in some multicellular organisms, leading to dormancy, or torpor. Colonies of the urochordate Botrylloides leachii enter torpor in response to changes in seawater temperature and may survive ...
Yosef Hyams +7 more
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Immunobiology of compound ascidians, with particular reference to Botryllus schlosseri: state of art [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2008 The phylogenetic position of invertebrate chordates closely related to vertebrates explains the increasing interest towards tunicate immunobiology. Most of the tunicates are ascidians which, like all other invertebrates, rely only on innate immunity for ...
L Ballarin
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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 Fertilization is one of the most important events in living organisms to generate a new life with a mixed genetic background. To achieve successful fertilization, sperm and eggs must undergo complex processes in a sequential order.
Takako Saito +2 more
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Mechanisms of Sperm–Egg Interactions: What Ascidian Fertilization Research Has Taught Us
Cells, 2022 Fertilization is an essential process in terrestrial organisms for creating a new organism with genetic diversity. Before gamete fusion, several steps are required to achieve successful fertilization.
Hitoshi Sawada, Takako Saito
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Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Recent studies have reported that soft tunic syndrome (STS) in the edible ascidian Halocynthia roretzi is caused by the kinetoplastid parasite Azumiobodo hoyamushi.
Ki-Woong Nam +2 more
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Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringVertebrate mast cells are the first cells to initiate the inflammatory response. The origin of these highly specialised innate immunity cells in chordates is an intriguing unanswered question, and tunicates represent the best candidates to address this ...
Nicolò Brunelli +2 more
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Antitumor potential of natural products from marine ascidians of the Gibraltar Strait: A survey
Ciencias Marinas, 2003 The chemical study of a selection of marine ascidians from the Gibraltar Strait has led to the characterization of a collection of natural products of diverse biosynthetic origin.
E Zubía, MJ Ortega, J Salvá
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Evolutionary Applications, 2020 Research on the genetics of invasive species often focuses on patterns of genetic diversity and population structure within the introduced range. However, a growing body of literature is demonstrating the need to study how native genotypes affect both ...
Jamie Hudson +3 more
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Conservation of peripheral nervous system formation mechanisms in divergent ascidian embryos
eLife, 2020 Ascidians with very similar embryos but highly divergent genomes are thought to have undergone extensive developmental system drift. We compared, in four species (Ciona and Phallusia for Phlebobranchia, Molgula and Halocynthia for Stolidobranchia), gene ...
Joshua F Coulcher +8 more
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Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata
Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.Abstract Background Starfish play essential ecological roles as predators and ecosystem regulators; however, detailed developmental descriptions exist for only a handful of species, none of which are from the Mediterranean Sea. Results In this study, we provide the first full account of the development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata ...
Silvia Caballero‐Mancebo +3 more
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