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Restoration of the Animal Forests: Harnessing Silviculture Biodiversity Concepts for Coral Transplantation
Coral reefs and rain forests are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on earth, sharing numerous ecological and functional properties. Decades of anthropogenic activities and the overexploitation o...
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In vitro cultures of ectodermal monolayers from the model sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
We report here a novel approach for the extraction, isolation and culturing of intact ectodermal tissue layers from a model marine invertebrate, the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. A methodology is described ...
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Open AccessVenturing in coral larval chimerism: a compact functional domain with fostered genotypic diversity
The globally distributed coral species Pocillopora damicornis is known to release either sexual or asexual derived planula-larvae in various reef locations. Using microsatellite loci as markers, we documented the...
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Restoration of the Animal Forests: Harnessing Silviculture Biodiversity Concepts for Coral Transplantation
Coral reefs and rain forests are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on earth, sharing numerous ecological and functional properties. Decades of anthropogenic activities and the overexploitation o...
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Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides leachii (Chordata, Ascidiacea) have not been recorded in the Red Sea
Two botryllid species, Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides leachii are listed in a recent literature review on the ascidian species inventory from the Red Sea (Shenkar, Mar Biodiv 42:459–469, 2012). However, a ...
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Toxicology of Household Detergents to Reef Corals
Ecotoxicological impacts (survivorship, growth) of two detergents, the linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS) and the nonionic surfactants, nonylphenol ethoxylate (NPE), were examined on two branching coral spec...
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Long-term population genetic structure of an invasive urochordate: the ascidian Botryllus schlosseri
The accelerated pace of marine biological invasions raises questions pertaining to genetic traits and dynamics underlying the successful establishment of invasive species. Current research stresses the importa...
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Neglected Biological Features in Cnidarians Self-Nonself Recognition
Cnidarian taxa, currently of the most morphologically simplest extant metazoans, exhibit many salient properties of innate immunity that are shared by most Animalia. One hallmark constituent of immunity exhibi...
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Maternal-larval population genetic traits in Stylophora pistillata, a hermaphroditic brooding coral species
Aspects of maternal-planula larval genetics in the monoecious scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata (Red Sea, Eilat) were studied by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) methodology in two successive...
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Cell Cultures from Marine Invertebrates: New Insights for Capturing Endless Stemness
Despite several decades of extensive research efforts, there is yet no single permanent cell line available from marine invertebrates as these cells stop dividing in vitro within 24–72 h after their isolation,...
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De novo emerged stemness signatures in epithelial monolayers developed from extirpated palleal buds
In botryllid ascidians, astogeny is executed through blastogenesis, a weekly, highly synchronized phenomenon of growth and death cycles, each constitutes four major developmental stages (A–D), operating simult...
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Further portrayal of epithelial monolayers emergent de novo from extirpated ascidians palleal buds
Astogeny in botryllid ascidians is executed by highly synchronized, repeated development and death cycles operating simultaneously on three coexisting asexually derived generations: zooids, primary buds, and s...
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Stem Cells: Autonomy Interactors that Emerge as Causal Agents and Legitimate Units of Selection
Can stem cells be defined as legitimate units of selection (UOS)? Here I review traits of hallmark stem cells (many of which are manifested in marine organisms), which collectively reveal that some types of st...
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Stem Cells in Aquatic Invertebrates: Common Premises and Emerging Unique Themes
The remarkable ability to generate an embryo from a single fertilized oocyte and to regenerate tissues that are injured or going through natural physiological turnover, is the direct result of stem cells, natu...
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Stem Cells, Chimerism and Tolerance: Lessons from Mammals and Ascidians
Chimerism is the presence of cells derived from more than one individual in a given individual. This phenomenon has been detected in a wide variety of multicellular organisms, including vertebrates. In mammals...
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Open AccessCell signaling and transcription factor genes expressed during whole body regeneration in a colonial chordate
The restoration of adults from fragments of blood vessels in botryllid ascidians (termed whole body regeneration [WBR]) represents an inimitable event in the chordates, which is poorly understood on the mechan...
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Employing of the Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) Methodology as an Efficient Population Genetic Tool for Symbiotic Cnidarians
Although the use of molecular markers in population genetics of marine organisms is increasingly employed, methodologic limitations still hampered the research for some taxa, such as symbiotic cnidarians, incl...
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Open AccessCoral kin aggregations exhibit mixed allogeneic reactions and enhanced fitness during early ontogeny
Aggregated settlement of kin larvae in sessile marine invertebrates may result in a complex array of compatible and incompatible allogeneic responses within each assemblage. Each such aggregate can, therefore,...
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Pattern of settlement and natural chimerism in the colonial urochordate Botryllus schlosseri
Colonies of the cosmopolitan urochordate Botryllus schlosseri that share one or both alleles at a single allorecognition locus (Fu/HC) and come into tissue contacts, may fuse and form a mixed entity, a chimera. B...
