tunicates in English

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a marine invertebrate of a group that includes the sea squirts and salps. They have a rubbery or hard outer coat and two siphons to draw water into and out of the body.
The hull here is rich in marine life - hydroids, tunicates , anemones and sponges.
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1. Ascidians (tunicates) are primitive chordates

2. The three subphyla are as follows: UroChordata (tunicates)

3. The diet of most Boxfish consists of sponges, tunicates, worms, and crustaceans

4. What does Ascidian mean? Any of a class (Ascidiacea) of fixed tunicates; sea squirt

5. Natural Products Diversity of Marine Ascidians (Tunicates; Ascidiacea) and Successful Drugs in Clinical Development

6. The remaining chordates are the tunicates (UroChordata), lancelets (CephaloChordata), and, possibly, some odd extinct groups.

7. Scallops and Cardiids, siphonophores, tunicates (such as salps), and some jellyfish also employ jet propulsion

8. Tunicates, more often called Ascidians or sea squirts, are the only animals that perform cellulose biosynthesis

9. Class Agnatha (Jawless fish) General Characteristics: Predicted to be the first vertebrates -> oldest known fossils/most similar to lancets, tunicates

10. Chordata is defined as the most recent common ancestor of tunicates and cephalochordates, and all of that ancestor's descendants.

11. Ascidians (Class Ascidiacea), also known as tunicates or sea squirts, are marine invertebrates that are sessile suspension feeders and usually attached to a substrate

12. Various species of the subphylum tunicata are commonly known as Ascidians, sea squirts, tunicates, sea pork, sea livers, or sea tulips

13. Chordates consist of three groups of unequal size: cephaloChordates (amphioxi or lancets), uroChordates (tunicates or “sea squirts”), and the largest group, the vertebrates (fishes, amphibians

14. 3 Pelagic tunicates play an important role in marine food web carbon cycle as they feed on bacterioplankton and pico-and nano-phytoplankton and meanwhile are preys for commercial animals.

15. Chordate, any member of the phylum Chordata, which includes the vertebrates (subphylum Vertebrata), the most highly evolved animals, as well as two other subphyla—the tunicates (subphylum Tunicata) and cephalochordates (subphylum CephaloChordata)

16. 3 Life on the ocean bottom Reef-associated taxa known to have such potential qualities include: algae species, sponges, Coelenterates , nudi-branch mollusks, and tunicates (Lustigman et al., 1992).

17. Belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates, as well as all the true vertebrates, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

18. : any of a class (Ascidiacea) of solitary or colonial sessile tunicates having an incurrent and excurrent siphon — called also sea squirt First Known Use of Ascidian 1823, in the meaning defined above

19. Chordate, any member of the phylum Chordata, which includes the vertebrates (subphylum Vertebrata), the most highly evolved animals, as well as two other subphyla—the tunicates (subphylum Tunicata) and cephaloChordates (subphylum Cephalochordata)

20. Ascidians : sessile tunicates : ascídia [Portuguese] ascidies [French] tuniqués sessiles [French] Taxonomic Status: Current Standing: valid Data Quality Indicators: Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met Global Species Completeness: partial : Latest Record Review: 2013

21. Chordates (Chordata) are a group of animals that includes vertebrates, tunicates, lancelets. Of these, the vertebrates—lampreys, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fishes—are the most familiar and are the group to which humans belong.

22. Ascidians (tunicates; sea squirts) are marine animals which provide a source of diverse, bioactive natural products, and a model for toxicity screenings. Compounds isolated from Ascidians comprise an approved anti-tumor drug and many others are potent drug leads.

23. Medical definition of Chordata: a phylum comprising animals having at least at some stage of development a more or less well-developed notochord, a dorsally situated central nervous system, and gill clefts in the walls of the pharynx and including the vertebrates, lancelets, and tunicates.

24. Noun any minute marine invertebrate animal of the class Ascidiacea, such as the sea squirt, the adults of which are degenerate and sedentary: subphylum Tunicata (tunicates) Ascidian tadpole the free-swimming larva of an Ascidian, having a tadpole-like tail containing the notochord and nerve cord

25. Definition of chordate : any of a phylum (Chordata) of animals having at least at some stage of development a notochord, dorsally situated central nervous system, and gill slits and including the vertebrates, lancelets, and tunicates Other Words from chordate Example Sentences Learn More about chordate Other Words from chordate

26. The MAREX ('Exploring marine resources for bioactive compounds: from discovery to sustainable production and industrial applications') project has received EUR 6 million under the 'Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology' (KBBE) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to collect, isolate and classify marine organisms, including sea anemones, tunicates and micro and macroalgae, from the Mediterranean, Baltic and Arabian Seas as well as the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.