... role by enabling or conditioning species tolerance to stressful environmental conditions. We investigated developmental performance of early life stages of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis (derived from populations of anthropogenically impacted and control sites) to an extreme weather event (i.e. marine...

... 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 shadow response electrophysiology muscle field potentials nervous system locomotion Ciona intestinalis Ascidians belong to the phylum Chordata, subphylum Urochordata, which is the sister group of vertebrates and thus possess...

... in the genome of Ciona intestinalis identified a single Kv4 gene and a single KChIP gene, implying that the diversification of both genes occurred during early vertebrate evolution, since the corresponding mammalian gene families are formed by several paralogues. In this study we describe the cloning...

... Amblyomma americanum (lone star tick) Whole haemolymph, salivary glands and saliva PGE 2 , PGF 2α PGD 2 ,PGA 2 /PGB 2 RIA/GC-MS and bioassay; radio-TLC Assistance in tick feeding Bowman et al. (1996); Pedibhotla et al. (1997); Aljamali et al. (2002) Urochordates Ciona intestinalis (sea...

... including regulation of the vascular system. This study determined whether eicosanoids or their precursors are involved in the regulation of heart rate in the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis . Eicosanoid generation by both heart and blood cells was measured. The major lipoxygenase products formed were both...