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All-Tunicate Cellulose Film with Good Light Management Properties for High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

Nanomaterials, 2023
Tunicate nanocellulose with its unique properties, such as excellent mechanical strength, high crystallinity, and good biodegradability, has potential to be used for the preparation of light management film with tunable transmittance and haze. Herein, we
Meiyan Wu, Mingliang Sun, Bin Li
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A protocadherin mediates oral placode morphogenesis in the tunicate Ciona [PDF]

Biology Open
Sriikhar Vedurupaka, Bita Jadali, Christopher J. Johnson, Alberto Stolfi, Sydney Popsuj   +4 more
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Typical 2-Cys Peroxiredoxins as a Defense Mechanism against Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress in the Solitary Ascidian Ciona robusta

Antioxidants, 2021
Typical 2-Cys peroxiredoxins (2-Cys Prdxs) are proteins with antioxidant properties belonging to the thioredoxin peroxidase family. With their peroxidase activity, they contribute to the homeostatic control of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and, therefore,
Laura Drago, Diana Ferro, Rigers Bakiu, Loriano Ballarin, Gianfranco Santovito   +4 more
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Stemness Activity Underlying Whole Brain Regeneration in a Basal Chordate

Cells, 2022
Understanding how neurons regenerate following injury remains a central challenge in regenerative medicine. Adult mammals have a very limited ability to regenerate new neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). In contrast, the basal chordate Polycarpa
Tal Gordon, Tal Zaquin, Mark Alec Kowarsky, Yotam Voskoboynik, Noam Hendin, Omri Wurtzel, Federico Caicci, Lucia Manni, Ayelet Voskoboynik, Noa Shenkar   +9 more
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Diversity, Bioactivity Profiling and Untargeted Metabolomics of the Cultivable Gut Microbiota of Ciona intestinalis

Marine Drugs, 2020
It is widely accepted that the commensal gut microbiota contributes to the health and well-being of its host. The solitary tunicate Ciona intestinalis emerges as a model organism for studying host–microbe interactions taking place in the gut, however ...
Caroline Utermann, Vivien A. Echelmeyer, Ernest Oppong-Danquah, Martina Blümel, Deniz Tasdemir   +4 more
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Fibronectin contributes to notochord intercalation in the invertebrate chordate, Ciona intestinalis

EvoDevo, 2016
Background Genomic analysis has upended chordate phylogeny, placing the tunicates as the sister group to the vertebrates. This taxonomic rearrangement raises questions about the emergence of a tunicate/vertebrate ancestor.
Fernando Segade, Christina Cota, Amber Famiglietti, Anna Cha, Brad Davidson   +4 more
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Unmanned truck transportation scheduling in open-pit mines based on improved tunicate swarm algorithm

Gong-kuang zidonghua, 2022
In order to solve the problem of unmanned truck transportation scheduling in open-pit mines, the minimum sum of fuel cost, fixed start-up cost, breakdown maintenance cost, and network base station construction and maintenance cost are taken as the ...
LI Zaiyou, SUN Yanbin, WANG Xiaoguang, CHEN Yong, LIU Guangwei, GUO Zhiqing   +5 more
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Divergent mechanisms regulate conserved cardiopharyngeal development and gene expression in distantly related ascidians

eLife, 2014
Ascidians present a striking dichotomy between conserved phenotypes and divergent genomes: embryonic cell lineages and gene expression patterns are conserved between distantly related species. Much research has focused on Ciona or Halocynthia spp.
Alberto Stolfi, Elijah K Lowe, Claudia Racioppi, Filomena Ristoratore, C Titus Brown, Billie J Swalla, Lionel Christiaen   +6 more
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Functional specialization of Aurora kinase homologs during oogenic meiosis in the tunicate Oikopleura dioica

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023
A single Aurora kinase found in non-vertebrate deuterostomes is assumed to represent the ancestor of vertebrate Auroras A/B/C. However, the tunicate Oikopleura dioica, a member of the sister group to vertebrates, possesses two Aurora kinases (Aurora1 and
Haiyang Feng, Haiyang Feng, Eric M. Thompson, Eric M. Thompson   +3 more
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An FGF-driven feed-forward circuit patterns the cardiopharyngeal mesoderm in space and time

eLife, 2018
In embryos, multipotent progenitors divide to produce distinct progeny and express their full potential. In vertebrates, multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors produce second-heart-field-derived cardiomyocytes, and branchiomeric skeletal head muscles ...
Florian Razy-Krajka, Basile Gravez, Nicole Kaplan, Claudia Racioppi, Wei Wang, Lionel Christiaen   +5 more
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