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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.
Laurent Dufossé
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Thaliacean tunicates, vertebrate sisters regained lifelong mobility. [PDF]
PLoS BiologyTunicates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates, but many details of their evolutionary history remain unclear. A study published in PLOS Biology explores the unique embryogenesis of Thaliacea, the tunicates that regained mobility from their ...
Yasunori Sasakura
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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 ...
Jacques Piette, Patrick Lemaire
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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 MarÃn
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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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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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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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Innovating Environmentally Sustainable Materials Platforms by Harnessing Coastal Marine Tunicates [PDF]
ChemSusChemNathalie Lavoine +2 more
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Molecules, 2021 Marine invertebrates have been reported to be an excellent resource of many novel bioactive compounds. Studies reported that Indonesia has remarkable yet underexplored marine natural products, with a high chemical diversity and a broad spectrum of ...
Fauzia Izzati +7 more
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