Tunicates as Sources of High-Quality Nutrients and Bioactive Compounds for Food/Feed and Pharmaceutical Applications: A Review [PDF]
Foods, 2023 Tunicates are widely distributed worldwide and are recognized as abundant marine bioresources with many potential applications. In this review, state-of-the-art studies on chemical composition analyses of various tunicate species were summarized; these ...
Pingping Gao +6 more
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Tunicates have a complex, highly dynamic TNF superfamily. [PDF]
PLoS ONEGenes of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Superfamily (TNFSF) encode proteins with critical roles in cell signaling in animals, particularly in immunity and development. The evolution of the TNF superfamily remains poorly understood.
Ignacio Marín
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A mid-Cambrian tunicate and the deep origin of the ascidiacean body plan [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Tunicates are an evolutionarily significant subphylum of marine chordates, with their phylogenetic position as the sister-group to Vertebrata making them key to unraveling our own deep time origin.
Karma Nanglu +3 more
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Gene networks and the evolution of olfactory organs, eyes, hair cells and motoneurons: a view encompassing lancelets, tunicates and vertebrates [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologyKey developmental pathways and gene networks underlie the formation of sensory cell types and structures involved in chemosensation, vision and mechanosensation, and of the efferents these sensory inputs can activate.
Bernd Fritzsch +2 more
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Sensory cells in tunicates: insights into mechanoreceptor evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologyTunicates, the sister group of vertebrates, offer a unique perspective for evolutionary developmental studies (Evo-Devo) due to their simple anatomical organization.
Chiara Anselmi +6 more
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Marine Natural Products from Tunicates and Their Associated Microbes
Marine Drugs, 2021 Marine tunicates are identified as a potential source of marine natural products (MNPs), demonstrating a wide range of biological properties, like antimicrobial and anticancer activities.
Chatragadda Ramesh +4 more
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Heliyon, 2021 This is the first comparative of tunicate cellulose nanocrystalline (t-CNC) from colonial and solitary tunicates. The t-CNC from the colonial tunicate Eudistoma sp. (CL1) was compared with solitary tunicates Polycarpa reniformis (CL2) and Phallusia nigra
Naphatson Chanthathamrongsiri +4 more
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Botryllin, a Novel Antimicrobial Peptide from the Colonial Ascidian Botryllus schlosseri
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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, 2020 Tunicates are a diverse group of invertebrate marine chordates that includes the larvaceans, thaliaceans, and ascidians. Because of their unique evolutionary position as the sister group of the vertebrates, tunicates are invaluable as a comparative model and hold the promise of revealing both conserved and derived features of chordate gastrulation ...
Konner M, Winkley +4 more
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Tunicates: exploring the sea shores and roaming the open ocean. A tribute to Thomas Huxley [PDF]
Open Biology, 2015 This review is a tribute to the remarkable contributions of Thomas Huxley to the biology of tunicates, the likely sister group of vertebrates. In 1851, the great biologist and philosopher published two landmark papers on pelagic tunicates in the ...
Patrick Lemaire, Jacques Piette
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