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tunicate

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urochordate

any minute marine chordate of the subphylum Tunicata, containing the sea squirts. They feed by ciliary action and lack a NOTOCHORD, though one is present in the tail of the tadpole larva.
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Dos nuevos registros de ascidias (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) para la costa continental de Chile.
The haemocytes of the salp Thalia democratica (Tunicata, Thaliacea): an ultrastructural and histochemical study in the oozoid.
SM9913, Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis ANT/505, Pseudoalteromonas tunicata D2, Alishewanella jeotgali KCTC 22429, and Shewanella denitrificans OS217, respectively.
The protein CBY10027.1 of Tunicata showed an additional similarity to a random analog of mouse SYCP1 (Table 6).
The Bidarki Project studied black leather chitons (Katharina tunicata) in the lower Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Effects of the azole fungicide Imazalil on the development of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis (Chordata, Tunicata): morphological and molecular characterization of the induced phenotype.
The rare spiro-5,6-lactone ring skeleton found in the three compounds has been reported as fungal secondary metabolites from Massarina tunicata (Oh et al., 2001), Mycosphaerella rosigena (Albinati et al., 1980), Microsphaeropsis sp.
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