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Photoreceptive Systems in Ascidians[dagger]
; ...brain vesicle of the tadpole larva of ascidians, simple basal chordates, contains an...responsible for the photic swimming behavior. Ascidian adults also exhibit several types of...phylogenetic studies have suggested that ascidians are the closest living relatives of vertebrates...
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Isolation and characterization of endostyle-specific genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.
; ...certain prosobranchiates (Orton, 1912). The ascidian endostyle forms a trough-shaped structure...endostyle of tunicates. Thereafter, the ascidian endostyle has been intensively investigated...1963). The general organization of the ascidian endostyle is depicted in Fig. 1B. The...
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p58, a cytoskeletal protein, is associated with muscle cell determinants in ascidian eggs.
; ...myoplasmic cytoskeletal domain (MCD) of ascidian eggs. The MCD consists of two distinct...antibody, is a component of the DFL. In ascidian species that produce tadpoles, the DFL...cells. Eggs produced by direct-developing ascidians, which do not produce larvae with muscular...
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Passive flow through an unstalked intertidal ascidian: orientation and morphology enhance suspension feeding in Pyura stolonifera.
; ...Active suspension feeders, such as solitary ascidians, could induce passive flow from external...inhalant siphon would force water through the ascidian (Vogel, 1974, 1994; Kott, 1989). The stalked ascidian Styela montereyensis has been shown to...
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Direct development in the ascidian Molgula retortiformis (Verrill, 1871).
; Introduction Most ascidians produce eggs that develop into chordate...Grave, 1935; Cloney, 1978, 1982). Ascidians that produce swimming larvae are termed...cellular features of direct-developing ascidians, he was among the first to recognize...
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Isolation of biologically functional RNA during programmed death of a colonial ascidian.
; ...phagocytic cells (Kerr, 1972). The colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri contributes a unique...Unfortunately, Botryllus and other colonial ascidians harbor polyphenolic and DOPA-containing...rapidly isolated from various colonial ascidian species, including Botryllus. In addition...
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Patterns and consequences of whole colony growth in the compound ascidian Polyclinum planum.
; ...and by Bak et al. (1981) for a compound ascidian. In Sebens' (1987) Indeterminate Growth...1971) and Bak et al. (1981) report that ascidian colonies grow rapidly when they are not...he stated that the age of (compound) ascidians is practically impossible to estimate...
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Life-history variation in a colonial ascidian: broad-sense heritabilities and tradeoffs in allocation to asexual growth and male and female reproduction.
; ...present data from a common-garden experiment with the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri, a cyclical hermaphrodite, that addresses...and Methods Study species Botryllus schlosseri, a colonial ascidian with a cosmopolitan distribution, is common on firm substrata...
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Subcuticular rejection: an advanced mode of the allogeneic rejection in the compound ascidians Botrylloides simodensis and B. fucus.
; ...forms of sessile animals, from sponges to ascidians. This phenomenon is known as colony specificity...recognition between the two colonies. In some ascidians, the genetic control of this allorecognition...Studies on colony specificity in colonial ascidians have been focused on species of the family...
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Mechanisms of specification in ascidian embryos.(Genetic Regulatory Networks in Embryogenesis and Evolution)
; Ascidians (subphylum Urochordata, class Ascidiacea) are ubiquitous...destruction experiments in the history of embryology, ascidian eggs and embryos have served as an experimental system...Maternal genes with localized mRNA Fate restriction in ascidian embryos takes place relatively early; i.e., most of ...
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