Microfilament Contraction Promotes Rounding of Tunic Slices: An Integumentary Defense System in the Colonial Ascidian Aplidium yamazii
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- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- other
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 189 (1) , 29-35
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1542198
Abstract
In Aplidium yamazii, when a slice of a live colony (approximately 0.5 mm thick) was incubated in seawater for 12 h, the slice became a round tunic fragment. This tunic rounding was inhibited by fre...Keywords
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