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Muscle differentiation in a colonial ascidian: organisation, gene expression and evolutionary considerations

BACKGROUND: Ascidians are tunicates, the taxon recently proposed as sister group to the vertebrates. They possess a chordate-like swimming larva, which metamorphoses into a sessile adult. Several ascidian species form colonies of clonal individuals by asexual reproduction. During their life cycle, a...

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Autores principales: Degasperi, Valentina, Gasparini, Fabio, Shimeld, Sebastian M, Sinigaglia, Chiara, Burighel, Paolo, Manni, Lucia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2753633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19737381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-9-48