A new transglutaminase-like from the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe vs Sea Squirts - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The colour of the ascidian is in some cases sallow, and in other cases red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

He pointed out also that the "notochord" was confined to the tail of the ascidian larva.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The so-called tethyum or ascidian has of all these animals the most remarkable characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Amphioxus therefore might well be considered an extremely simplified and degenerate Cyclostome, and the ascidian larva the last term of this degeneration-series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

In the transition that once took place from one species of ascidian larva to a form similar to the lancelet fish, he sees the new branch diverging in the series of vertebrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference

With regard to testaceans, of the walking or creeping species the urchin appears to have the least developed sense of smell; and, of the stationary species, the ascidian and the barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Lamellibranch molluscs; they denied the homology of the ascidian nervous system with that of Vertebrates, von Baer being at great pains to show that the ascidian nerve-centre was really ventral in position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Amphioxus and Vertebrates, how gill-slits were formed in the walls of the pharynx, and how there existed in the ascidian larva a structure which in position and mode of development was the strict homologue of the vertebrate notochord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Lemaire P (2001) Induction of anterior neural fates in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The sea squirt, also known as an ascidian, stands 50 centimetres tall on the sea floor at a depth of just over 4,000 metres.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

Ben-Shlomo R, Douek J, Rinkevich B (2001) Heterozygote deficiency and chimerism in remote populations of a colonial ascidian from New Zealand.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Constantly he comes to ask if I would like to see some new form and I am taken to see some protozoa or ascidian isolated on the slide plate of his microscope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference

One of Australia's deepest residents - a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt, or ascidian, standing half a meter tall on the seafloor on the Tasman Fracture Zone at a depth of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Reference

One of Australia's deepest residents a carnivorous sea squirt, or ascidian, standing half a meter tall on the seafloor on the Tasman Fracture Zone at a depth of 4006 metres.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In order to further understand the atypical evolutionary dynamics of the mitochondrial genome of tunicates, we determined the complete sequence of the solitary ascidian Herdmania momus.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

You misbegotten son of an ourang and grandson of an ascidian (ghosts keep up with science, you observe), what business have you to be holding up my person to the contempt of my posterity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

But that beginning had emerged without any breach of continuity from a development which carries us back to a quadrimane ancestor, still further back (according to Darwin's conjecture) to a marine animal of the ascidian type, and then through remoter periods to the lowest form of organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

A tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

The ascidian larva, having no cilia and being necessarily motile, requires for the insertion of its muscles or contractile organs ... a central flexible axis, a true chorda dorsalis analogous to that of Vertebrates "(pp. 278-9).    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

As an active ascidian again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

Competition, that evolved Shakespeare from an ascidian, may be a mistake of Nature’s — M. Arsène Houssaye declares that she never was so wise and artistically perfect as we take her to be — but her mistakes are too old to be rectified in a single generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Familiar Faces] Reference

If I only had an ascidian of my own!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference

(2003) Chimerism following fusion in a clonal ascidian (Urochordata).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Is asinine -- nay, worse -- ascidian folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 05: Poems of the Class of '29(1851-1889)] Reference