Ascidians belong to tunicates, the sister group of vertebrates. Ascidians are cosmopolitan
marine filter-feeding organisms that, along with other members of the chordate subphylum …

Stem cells (SCs) in vertebrates typically reside in “stem cell niches”(SCNs), morphologically
restricted tissue microenvironments that are important for SC survival and proliferation …

Background Botryllid ascidians are a group of marine invertebrate chordates that are
colonial and grow by repeated rounds of asexual reproduction to form a colony of individual …

The germline provides the genetic and non-genetic information that passes from one
generation to the next. Given this important role in species propagation, egg and sperm …

Cell competition is a process that compares the relative fitness of progenitor cells, resulting
in winners, which contribute further to development, and losers, which are excluded, and is …

Directed intercellular movement of diverse small molecules, including metabolites, signal
molecules and xenobiotics, is a key feature of multicellularity. Networks of small molecule …

Oxylipins, oxygenated fatty acid derivatives, are well-established stress mediators acting in
auto-and paracrine manner. Eicosanoids, the most studied branch of oxylipins, are …

Background: In sheep, FecB is the essential biomarker of the fertility, previous researches
have provided a detailed insight on the regulation involved estrus phase and FecB in the …