Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis.

ABSTRACT: Ascidian embryos have been studied since the birth of experimental embryology at the end of the 19th century. They represent textbook examples of mosaic development characterized by a fast development with very few cells and invariant cleavage patterns and lineages. Ascidians belong to tunicates, the vertebrate sister group, and their study is essential to shed light on the emergence of vertebrates. Importantly, deciphering developmental gene regulatory networks has been carried out mostly in two of the three ascidian orders, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. To infer ancestral developmental programs in ascidians, it is thus essential to carry out molecular embryology in the third ascidian order, the Aplousobranchia. Here, we present genomic resources for the colonial aplousobranch Clave

SUBMITTER: Daric V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10950049 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature