Ciona intestinalis (sometimes known by the common name of vase tunicate) is an ascidian (sea squirt), a tunicate with very soft tunic. Its Latin name literally...

Herdman, 1882 Ciona sheikoi Sanamyan, 1998 As of 2008, the genomes of Ciona intestinalis and Ciona savignyi have been sequenced. Ciona intestinalis is a hermaphrodite...

The Ciona intestinalis protein database (CIPRO) is a protein database for the tunicate species C. intestinalis. Ciona intestinalis Endo, Toshinori; Ueno...

to be Ciona robusta. Ciona robusta is a delineation of C. Intestinalis. In the early 2000s, molecular research concluded that C. intestinalis was composed...

biofuel projects. Some tunicates are used as model organisms. Ciona intestinalis and Ciona savignyi have been used for developmental studies. Both species'...

chordates. The sequenced genomes of the related sea squirts Ciona intestinalis and Ciona savignyi are small and easily manipulated; comparisons with the...

Meinertzhagen IA (December 2016). "The CNS connectome of a tadpole larva of Ciona intestinalis (L.) highlights sidedness in the brain of a chordate sibling". eLife...

very similar Ciona intestinalis but Ciona savignyi has white flecks in the tunic wall which C. intestinalis lacks. Nor does C. intestinalis have any reddish...

Columbia, Levine moved to UCSD in 1991, where he added the sea squirt, Ciona intestinalis, to his repertoire. Although much of Levine's work, including his...

Branchiostoma floridae), but not in the earlier diverging tunicate Ciona intestinalis. Thus, the aromatase gene evolved early in chordate evolution and...