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 …
Background Tunicates are the closest relatives of vertebrates and are widely used as models to study the evolutionary developmental biology of chordates. Their phylogeny …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …
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 …
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 …
Botryllids are colonial ascidians widely studied for their potential invasiveness and as model organisms, however the morphological description and discrimination of these species is …