Natural Products from Antarctic Colonial Ascidians of the Genera <em>Aplidium</em> and <em>Synoicum</em>: Variability and Defensive Role [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2012 Ascidians have developed multiple defensive strategies mostly related to physical, nutritional or chemical properties of the tunic. One of such is chemical defense based on secondary metabolites.
Conxita Avila +7 more
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Artificial seawater based long-term culture of colonial ascidians [PDF]
Developmental Biology, 2021 Tunicates are highly diverse marine invertebrate filter-feeders that are vertebrates’ closest relatives. These organisms, despite a drastically different body plan during their adulthood, have a tissue complexity related to that of vertebrates. Ascidians,
W. M, L. Matas Serrato, B. S.
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Colonial ascidians strongly preyed upon, yet dominate the substrate in a subtropical fouling community. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2019 Higher diversity and dominance at lower latitudes has been suggested for colonial species. We verified the latitudinal pattern in species richness of ascidians, finding that higher colonial-to-solitary species ratios occur in the tropics and subtropics ...
Hiebert LS +4 more
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Long-term monitoring data logs of a recirculating artificial seawater based colonial ascidian aquaculture [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2021 This article presents and describes data related to the monitoring of our in-land in-lab marine recirculating artificial seawater husbandry system for breeding colonial ascidians [1] over a timespan of three years.
Marta K. Wawrzyniak +2 more
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Cleaning colonial ascidians v2
protocols.io, 2021 This protocol has been successfully used with Botrylloides diegensis and Botryllus schlosseri.
S. Blanchoud +1 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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Subcloning colonial ascidians v2
, 2021 We have been subcloning colonial ascidians since some time already, till now - with a lot of success. This protocol has been ruinously used by many of our co-workers.
Laura Bugada
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, 2021 This protocol has been successfully used to stage Botrylloides diegensis in our laboratory and was based on the following publication: Ontology for the Asexual Development and Anatomy of the Colonial Chordate Botryllus ...
S. Blanchoud, M. Wawrzyniak
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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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New data on C1qDC from the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2021 In the compound ascidian Botryllus schlosseri, we recently identified a novel C1q-domain-containing (C1qDC) protein expressed by circulating immunocytes, called BsC1qDC.
A Peronato +3 more
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