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Ascidian Tunicate Extracts Attenuate Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Collagen-induced Murine Model
Natural Product Communications, 2014 Murine rheumatoid arthritis models are often used to investigate the potential therapeutic effects of candidate drugs. The present study has been conducted in order to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of ascidian tunicate extracts in a collagen ...
Seong-Ho Hong +8 more
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Inferring Tunicate Relationships And The Evolution Of The Tunicate Hox Cluster With The Genome Of Corella Inflata [PDF]
, 2020 Tunicates, the closest living relatives of vertebrates, have served as a foundational model of early embryonic development for decades. Comparative studies of tunicate phylogeny and genome evolution provide a critical framework for analyzing chordate ...
Ryan, J. F. +4 more
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Marine Ecology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Plankton play a key role in marine food webs by producing and transferring organic matter and energy to higher trophic levels. To define the trophic structure and interactions within the planktonic communities in the Gulf of Naples, we determined carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in particulate organic matter (POM, <20 μm ...
Louise Merquiol +2 more
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G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2020 Reproductive isolation is central to speciation, but interspecific crosses between two closely related species can produce viable and fertile hybrids.
Naoyuki Ohta +4 more
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Closed Systems for Long-Term Propagation of the Marine Tunicate <i>Botryllus schlosseri</i> Isolated from Natural Seawater. [PDF]
Life (Basel)Advanced methodologies for Botryllus schlosseri artificial seawater systems are needed to decrease dependency of large-scale culture on natural seawater and expand this important new model organism to more inland laboratories.
Hamar J +8 more
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Evolution of Allorecognition in the Tunicata
Biology, 2020 Allorecognition, the ability to distinguish self or kin from unrelated conspecifics, plays several important biological roles in invertebrate animals. Two of these roles include negotiating limited benthic space for colonial invertebrates, and inbreeding
Marie L. Nydam
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Evolution of CDK1 Paralog Specializations in a Lineage With Fast Developing Planktonic Embryos
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 The active site of the essential CDK1 kinase is generated by core structural elements, among which the PSTAIRE motif in the critical αC-helix, is universally conserved in the single CDK1 ortholog of all metazoans.
Xiaofei Ma +5 more
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Serotonin Receptors and Their Involvement in Melanization of Sensory Cells in Ciona intestinalis
Cells, 2023 Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)) is a biogenic monoamine with pleiotropic functions. It exerts its roles by binding to specific 5-HT receptors (5HTRs) classified into different families and subtypes.
Silvia Mercurio +4 more
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The evolutionary origins of the vertebrate olfactory system [PDF]
Open Biology, 2020 Vertebrates develop an olfactory system that detects odorants and pheromones through their interaction with specialized cell surface receptors on olfactory sensory neurons.
Guillaume Poncelet +1 more
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Inflammatory hemocytes in Ciona intestinalis innate immune response [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2009 In the present paper an attempt is carried out to revise Ciona intestinalis inflammatory hemocytes according to their morphology as formerly observed by light and electron microscopy, and taking in account recent reports on innate immunity gene ...
V Arizza, D Parrinello
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