The eventful history of nonembryonic development in tunicates

A Alié, LS Hiebert, M Scelzo… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tunicates encompass a large group of marine filter‐feeding animals and more than half of
them are able to reproduce asexually by a particular form of nonembryonic development …

The genome sequence of the colonial chordate, Botryllus schlosseri

A Voskoboynik, NF Neff, D Sahoo, AM Newman… - elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
Botryllus schlosseri is a colonial urochordate that follows the chordate plan of development
following sexual reproduction, but invokes a stem cell-mediated budding program during …

A phylogenomic framework and timescale for comparative studies of tunicates

F Delsuc, H Philippe, G Tsagkogeorga, P Simion… - Bmc Biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Tunicates are the closest relatives of vertebrates and are widely used as
models to study the evolutionary developmental biology of chordates. Their phylogeny …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution and development of budding by stem cells: ascidian coloniality as a case study

FD Brown, BJ Swalla - Developmental biology, 2012 - Elsevier
The evolution of budding in metazoans is not well understood on a mechanistic level, but is
an important developmental process. We examine the evolution of coloniality in ascidians …

An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models

G Tsagkogeorga, X Turon, RR Hopcroft, MK Tilak… - BMC evolutionary …, 2009 - Springer
Background Tunicates have been recently revealed to be the closest living relatives of
vertebrates. Yet, with more than 2500 described species, details of their evolutionary history …

Morphological Differences between Larvae of the Ciona intestinalis Species Complex: Hints for a Valid Taxonomic Definition of Distinct Species

R Pennati, GF Ficetola, R Brunetti, F Caicci… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The cosmopolitan ascidian Ciona intestinalis is the most common model species of
Tunicata, the sister-group of Vertebrata, and widely used in developmental biology …

[图书][B] Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode

K de Queiroz, P Cantino, J Gauthier - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Phylogenomics offers resolution of major tunicate relationships

KM Kocot, MG Tassia, KM Halanych… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tunicata, a diverse clade of approximately 3000 described species of marine, filter-feeding
chordates, is of great interest to researchers because tunicates are the closest living …

Molecular phylogeny of the protochordates: chordate evolution

L Zeng, BJ Swalla - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2005 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les deutérostomiens sont un groupe monophylétique d'animaux multicellulaires qui inclut
les chordés, un phylum qui possède un plan du corps unique parmi les métazoaires. Les …

An elongated COI fragment to discriminate botryllid species and as an improved ascidian DNA barcode

M Salonna, F Gasparini, D Huchon, F Montesanto… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Botryllids are colonial ascidians widely studied for their potential invasiveness and as model
organisms, however the morphological description and discrimination of these species is …