Cute but not cuddly, a colony of sea squirts dubbed “Skeleton panda ascidian” by divers after being discovered in waters off Okinawa Prefecture has been identified as a new species. The sea ...

Using micromanipulation, advanced imaging, reverse genetics, as well as biochemical approaches in dividing echinoderm and ascidian eggs, we are analyzing how the fertilizing sperm aster migrates in ...

Jiang, Aili Yu, Zhen and Wang, Changhai 2011. Effect of cadmium on the antioxidant system of the ascidian,Styela clava. Marine Biology Research, Vol. 7, Issue. 4, p ...

Zoological Science, 27: El Nagar A, HUYS R, Bishop JDD (2010) Widespread occurrence of the Southern Hemisphere ascidian Corella eumyota Traustedt, 1882 on the Atlantic coast of Iberia. Aquatic ...

During development, embryonic cells sculpt three-dimensional tissues. Although cell polarity is commonly analysed along one, and sometimes two, dimensions, this perspective illustrates how higher ...

We recently discovered evidence that a signaling pathway involving the protein chaperone Hsp90, nitric oxide (NO), and cGMP negatively regulates the initiation of metamorphosis in sea urchin and ...