New Data on the Rhamnose-Binding Lectin from the Colonial Ascidian Botryllus schlosseri: Subcellular Distribution, Secretion Mode and Effects on the Cyclical Generation Change [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2023 Botryllus schlosseri in a cosmopolitan ascidian, considered a reliable model organism for studies on the evolution of the immune system. B. schlosseri rhamnose-binding lectin (BsRBL) is synthesised by circulating phagocytes and behaves as an opsonin by ...
Giacomo Bovo, Loriano Ballarin
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Improved Media Formulations for Primary Cell Cultures Derived from a Colonial Urochordate [PDF]
Cells, 2023 The cultivation of marine invertebrate cells in vitro has garnered significant attention due to the availability of diverse cell types and cellular potentialities in comparison to vertebrates and particularly in response to the demand for a multitude of ...
Andy Qarri +4 more
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Historical navigation routes in European waters leave their footprint on the contemporary seascape genetics of a colonial urochordate [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Humans have intensively sailed the Mediterranean and European Atlantic waters throughout history, from the upper Paleolithic until today and centuries of human seafaring have established complex coastal and cross-seas navigation networks.
Eitan Reem +2 more
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Diversity, 2022 Compound styelid ascidians are distributed in all marine environments and usually exhibit high morphological plasticity and complexity. In particular, Botrylloides, Botryllus, and Symplegma species show high morphological variations leading to confusion ...
Lilian A. Palomino-Alvarez +3 more
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Multi-omics analysis reveals important role for microbial-derived metabolites from Botryllus schlosseri in metal interactions [PDF]
mSystemsMarine microbial communities govern many of the biological and chemical processes in the ocean, including element cycles, ecosystem health, and disease.
Dulce G. Guillén Matus +8 more
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Botryllin, a Novel Antimicrobial Peptide from the Colonial Ascidian Botryllus schlosseri [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2023 By mining the transcriptome of the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri, we identified a transcript for a novel styelin-like antimicrobial peptide, which we named botryllin.
Nicola Franchi +2 more
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The Onset of Whole-Body Regeneration in Botryllus schlosseri: Morphological and Molecular Characterization [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 Colonial tunicates are the only chordates that regularly regenerate a fully functional whole body as part of their asexual life cycle, starting from specific epithelia and/or mesenchymal cells.
Lorenzo Ricci +8 more
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Fission in a colonial marine invertebrate signifies unique life history strategies rather than being a demographic trait [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Each of the few known life-history strategies (e.g., r/K and parity [semelparity and iteroparity]), is a composite stratagem, signified by co-evolved sets of trade-offs with stochastically distributed variations that do not form novel structured ...
Oshrat Ben-Hamo +3 more
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Speed vs completeness: a comparative study of solitary and colonial tunicate embryogenesis [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologySolitary ascidians, such as Ciona robusta, have been used for over a century as model systems for embryological studies. These species are oviparous, producing many relatively small and transparent eggs, which are released and fertilized outside the ...
Chiara Anselmi +7 more
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Urochordate histoincompatible interactions activate vertebrate-like coagulation system components. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 The colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri expresses a unique allorecognition system. When two histoincompatible Botryllus colonies come into direct contact, they develop an inflammatory-like rejection response.
Matan Oren +4 more
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