Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica

Opisthobranch molluscs exhibit fascinating body plans associated with the evolution of shell loss in multiple lineages. Sea hares in particular are interesting because Aplysia californica is a well-studied model organism that offers a large suite of genetic tools. Bursatella leachii is a related tro...

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Autores principales: Vue, Zer, Kamel, Bishoy S., Capo, Thomas R., Bardales, Ana T., Medina, Mónica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2014
Materias:
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25538871
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.700
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author Vue, Zer
Kamel, Bishoy S.
Capo, Thomas R.
Bardales, Ana T.
Medina, Mónica
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description Opisthobranch molluscs exhibit fascinating body plans associated with the evolution of shell loss in multiple lineages. Sea hares in particular are interesting because Aplysia californica is a well-studied model organism that offers a large suite of genetic tools. Bursatella leachii is a related tropical sea hare that lacks a shell as an adult and therefore lends itself to comparative analysis with A. californica. We have established an enhanced culturing procedure for B. leachii in husbandry that enabled the study of shell formation and loss in this lineage with respect to A. californica life staging.
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spelling pubmed-42668532014-12-23 Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica Vue, Zer Kamel, Bishoy S. Capo, Thomas R. Bardales, Ana T. Medina, Mónica PeerJ Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science Opisthobranch molluscs exhibit fascinating body plans associated with the evolution of shell loss in multiple lineages. Sea hares in particular are interesting because Aplysia californica is a well-studied model organism that offers a large suite of genetic tools. Bursatella leachii is a related tropical sea hare that lacks a shell as an adult and therefore lends itself to comparative analysis with A. californica. We have established an enhanced culturing procedure for B. leachii in husbandry that enabled the study of shell formation and loss in this lineage with respect to A. californica life staging. PeerJ Inc. 2014-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4266853/ /pubmed/25538871 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.700 Text en © 2014 Vue et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Vue, Zer
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Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica
title Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica
title_full Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica
title_fullStr Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica
title_full_unstemmed Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica
title_short Comparative analysis of early ontogeny in Bursatella leachii and Aplysia californica
title_sort comparative analysis of early ontogeny in bursatella leachii and aplysia californica
topic Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25538871
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.700
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