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Ciona intestinalis Vase Tunicate

Ciona intestinalisis commonly referred to as Vase Tunicate. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Ciona intestinalis,Lake Merritt 2014


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lexID:
4295 
AphiaID:
103732 
Scientific:
Ciona intestinalis 
German:
Schlauchseescheide 
English:
Vase Tunicate 
Category:
Sea Squirts 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Phlebobranchia (Order) > Cionidae (Family) > Ciona (Genus) > intestinalis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Linnaeus, ), 1767 
Occurrence:
the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Alaska (Western Atlantic), Albania, Algeria, Antarctica, Argentina, Bass Strait, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada , Chile, Croatia, Danmark, Egypt, English Channel, European Coasts, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hawaii, Italy, Lybia, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New South Wales (Australia), New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Senegal, Slovenia, South Australia, South-Africa, Spain, Tasmania (Australia), the British Isles, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Mediterranean Sea, Western Australia 
Sea depth:
0 - 1000 Meter 
Size:
up to 7.87" (20 cm) 
Temperature:
35.42 °F - 57.92 °F (1.9°C - 14.4°C) 
Food:
Filter feeder, Plankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-06-19 13:42:48 

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Ciona intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1767)

Ciona intestinalis is a solitary tunicate with a cylindrical, gelatinous body, up to 14 cm long.

Synonyms:
Ascidia canina Mueller, 1776
Ascidia corrugata Mueller, 1776
Ascidia diaphanea Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
Ascidia intestinalis Linnaeus, 1767
Ascidia membranosa Renier, 1807
Ascidia ocellata Agassiz, 1850
Ascidia pulchella Alder, 1863
Ascidia tenella Stimpson, 1852
rAscidia virens Fabricius, 1779
Ascidia virescens Pennant, 1812
Ascidia viridiscens Brugière, 1792
Ciona canina (Mueller, 1776)
Ciona diaphanea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Ciona ocellata (Agassiz, 1850)
Ciona pulchella (Alder, 1863)
Ciona sociabilis (Gunnerus, 1765)
Ciona tenella (Stimpson, 1852)
Phallusia intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1767)
Tethyum sociabile Gunnerus, 1765

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Phlebobranchia (Order) > Cionidae (Family) > Ciona (Genus) > Ciona intestinalis (Species)

Scientific paper

  1. Time course for tail regression during metamorphosis of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Matsunobu, Shohei; Sasakura, Yasunori , 2015
  2. Closing the wounds: One hundred and twenty five years of regenerative biology in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Jeffery, William R., 2015
  3. Long-term demographic and reproductive trends in Ciona intestinalis sp. A, Caputi, Luigi; Crocetta, Fabio; Toscano, Francesco; Sordino, Paolo; Cirino, Paola , 2015
  4. The diatom-derived aldehyde decadienal affects life cycle transition in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis through nitric oxide/ERK signalling, Castellano, I.; Ercolesi, E.; Romano, G.; Ianora, A.; Palumbo, A. , 2015
  5. Enhancer of zeste acts as a major developmental regulator of Ciona intestinalis embryogenesis, Le Goff, E.; Martinand-Mari, C.; Martin, M.; Feuillard, J.; Boublik, Y.; Godefroy, N.; Mangeat, P.; Baghdiguian, S.; Cavalli, G. , 2015
  6. Evaluation of drug toxicity profiles based on the phenotypes of ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Mizotani, Yuji; Itoh, Shun; Hotta, Kohji; Tashiro, Etsu; Oka, Kotaro; Imoto, Masaya , 2015
  7. Study of the mixture effects of two compounds with different mode of action (fluconazole and ethanol) by using Ciona intestinalis as a new alternative animal model, Battistoni, Maria; Mercurio, Silvia; Di Renzo, Francesca; Pennati, Roberta; Menegola, Elena , 2015
  8. Ciona intestinalis galectin (CiLgals-a and CiLgals-b) genes are differentially expressed in endostyle zones and challenged by LPS, Parrinello, Daniela; Sanfratello, Maria Antonietta; Vizzini, Aiti; Parrinello, Nicolò; Cammarata, Matteo , 2015
  9. The significance of Ciona intestinalis as a stem organism in integrative studies of functional evolution of the chordate endocrine, neuroendocrine, and nervous systems, Matsubara, Shin; Kawada, Tsuyoshi; Sakai, Tsubasa; Aoyama, Masato; Osugi, Tomohiro; Shiraishi, Akira; Satake, Honoo , 2015
  10. Upregulated transcription of phenoloxidase genes in the pharynx and endostyle of Ciona intestinalis in response to LPS, Vizzini, Aiti; Parrinello, Daniela; Sanfratello, Maria Antonietta; Trapani, Maria Rosa; Mangano, Valentina; Parrinello, Nicolò; Cammarata, Matteo , 2015
  11. A pipeline for the systematic identification of non-redundant full-ORF cDNAs for polymorphic and evolutionary divergent genomes: Application to the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Gilchrist, Michael J.; Sobral, Daniel; Khoueiry, Pierre; Daian, Fabrice; Laporte, Batiste; Patrushev, Ilya; Matsumoto, Jun; Dewar, Ken; Hastings, Kenneth E.M.; Satou, Yutaka; Lemaire, Patrick; Rothbächer, Ute , 2015
  12. Gene expression profiles of FABP genes in protochordates,Ciona intestinalisandBranchiostoma belcheri, Orito, Wataru; Ohhira, Fuyuko; Ogasawara, Michio , 2015
  13. Fatty Acid and Lipid Profiles with Emphasis on n-3 Fatty Acids and Phospholipids fromCiona intestinalis, Zhao, Yadong; Wang, Miao; Lindström, Mikael E.; Li, Jiebing , 2015
  14. Detection of periodic patterns in microarray data reveals novel oscillating transcripts of biological rhythms inCiona intestinalis, Matsumae, Hiromi; Ishiwata, Ryosuke; Minamoto, Toshifumi; Ishida, Norio; Ogishima, Soichi; Tanaka, Hiroshi , 2015
  15. Bacterial diversity associated with the tunic of the model chordate Ciona intestinalis, Blasiak, Leah C; Zinder, Stephen H; Buckley, Daniel H; Hill, Russell T , 2014
  16. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Sasaki, Haruka; Yoshida, Keita; Hozumi, Akiko; Sasakura, Yasunori , 2014
  17. Germ cell mutations of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis with TALE nucleases, Yoshida, Keita; Treen, Nicholas; Hozumi, Akiko; Sakuma, Tetsushi; Yamamoto, Takashi; Sasakura, Yasunori , 2014
  18. Symmetrical Reproductive Compatibility of Two Species in the Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea) Species Complex, a Model for Marine Genomics and Developmental Biology, Sato, Atsuko; Shimeld, Sebastian M.; Bishop, John D. D. , 2014
  19. Transposon-mediated targeted and specific knockdown of maternally expressed transcripts in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Iitsuka, Takako; Mita, Kaoru; Hozumi, Akiko; Hamada, Mayuko; Satoh, Nori; Sasakura, Yasunori , 2014
  20. Investigating sperm cryopreservation in a model tunicate, Ciona intestinalis sp. A, Sorrenti, Gerarda; Bagnoli, Anna; Miraglia, Valentina; Crocetta, Fabio; Vitiello, Valentina; Ristoratore, Filomena; Cirino, Paola; Sansone, Giovanni; Sordino, Paolo , 2014
  21. Fibroblast growth factor signalling controls nervous system patterning and pigment cell formation in Ciona intestinalis, Racioppi, Claudia; Kamal, Ashwani K.; Razy-Krajka, Florian; Gambardella, Gennaro; Zanetti, Laura; di Bernardo, Diego; Sanges, Remo; Christiaen, Lionel A.; Ristoratore, Filomena , 2014
  22. Matrix adhesion polarizes heart progenitor induction in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis, Norton, J.; Cooley, J.; Islam, A. F. M. T.; Cota, C. D.; Davidson, B. , 2013
  23. Sensing charges of the Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensing phosphatase, Villalba-Galea, C. A.; Frezza, L.; Sandtner, W.; Bezanilla, F. , 2013
  24. Crossing the Species Barrier: Genomic Hotspots of Introgression between Two Highly Divergent Ciona intestinalis Species, Roux, C.; Tsagkogeorga, G.; Bierne, N.; Galtier, N. , 2013
  25. First record of vase tunicate, Ciona intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1767) in coastal Newfoundland waters, Sargent, Philip; Wells, Terri; Matheson, Kyle; McKenzie, Cynthia; Deibel, Don , 2013
  26. Brief Hypo-Osmotic Shock Causes Test Cell Death, Prevents Neurula Rotation, and Disrupts Left-Right Asymmetry in Ciona intestinalis, Katsumoto, Shimpei; Hatta, Kohei; Nakagawa, Masashi , 2013
  27. cDNA cloning, localization, and candidate binding partners of acid-extractable vitelline-coat protein Ci-v-Themis-like in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Otsuka, Kei; Yamada, Lixy; Sawada, Hitoshi , 2013
  28. Optimizing early detection of non-indigenous species: Estimating the scale of dispersal of a nascent population of the invasive tunicate Ciona intestinalis (L.), Collin, Samuel B.; Edwards, Paul K.; Leung, Brian; Johnson, Ladd E. , 2013
  29. Evidence for dynamic and multiple roles for huntingtin inCiona intestinalis, Mohammed M. Idris, Michael C. Thorndyke, Euan R. Brown, 2013
  30. The Protochordate Ciona intestinalis Has a Protein Like Full-Length Vertebrate Fibrinogen, Doolittle, Russell F., 2012
  31. Ciona intestinalis notochord as a new model to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of tubulogenesis, Elsa Denker; Di Jiang, 2012
  32. Self-incompatibility response induced by calcium increase in sperm of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Saito, T.; Shiba, K.; Inaba, K.; Yamada, L.; Sawada, H. , 2012
  33. Transcription of genes involved in glutathione biosynthesis in the solitary tunicate Ciona intestinalis exposed to metals, N. Franchi; D. Ferro; L. Ballarin; G. Santovito, 2012
  34. Acetylcholinesterase activity in juvenile Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea, Urochordata) after exposure to tributyltin, Mansueto, Valentina; Cangialosi, Maria Vittoria; Arukwe, Augustine , 2012
  35. Molecular and functional characterization of cionin receptors in the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis: the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate cholecystokinin/gastrin family, Sekiguchi, T.; Ogasawara, M.; Satake, H. , 2012
  36. Molecular and functional characterization of cionin receptors in the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis: the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate cholecystokinin/gastrin family, Sekiguchi, T.; Ogasawara, M.; Satake, H. , 2012
  37. Immune competence of the Ciona intestinalis pharynx: Complement system-mediated activity, Stefano Giacomelli; Daniela Melillo; John D. Lambris; Maria Rosaria Pinto, 2012
  38. A genomic overview of short genetic variations in a basal chordate,Ciona intestinalis, Satou, Yutaka; Shin-i, Tadasu; Kohara, Yuji; Satoh, Nori; Chiba, Shota , 2012
  39. Localization and enzymatic activity profiles of the proteases responsible for tachykinin-directed oocyte growth in the protochordate, Ciona intestinalis, Masato Aoyama; Tsuyoshi Kawada; Honoo Satake, 2012
  40. Genomic- and protein-based approaches for connectin (titin) identification in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Akira Hanashima; Michio Ogasawara; Yui Nomiya; Tomoko Sasaki; Yulong Bao; Sumiko Kimura, 2012
  41. Activation of a tunicate (Ciona intestinalis) xenobiotic receptor orthologue by both natural toxins and synthetic toxicants, Andrew E. Fidler; Patrick T. Holland; Erica J. Reschly; Sean Ekins; Matthew D. Krasowski, 2012
  42. The formation and positioning of cilia in Ciona intestinalis embryos in relation to the generation and evolution of chordate left–right asymmetry, Helen Thompson; Michael K. Shaw; Helen R. Dawe; Sebastian M. Shimeld, 2012
  43. Initial deployment of the cardiogenic gene regulatory network in the basal chordate, Ciona intestinalis, Arielle Woznica; Maximilian Haeussler; Ella Starobinska; Jessica Jemmett; Younan Li; David Mount; Brad Davidson, 2012
  44. Inducible galectins are expressed in the inflamed pharynx of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Aiti Vizzini; Daniela Parrinello; Maria Antonietta Sanfratello; Giuseppina Salerno; Matteo Cammarata; Nicolò Parrinello, 2012
  45. Efficient targeted mutagenesis of the chordate Ciona intestinalis genome with zinc-finger nucleases, Narudo Kawai; Hiroshi Ochiai; Tetsushi Sakuma; Lixy Yamada; Hitoshi Sawada; Takashi Yamamoto; Yasunori Sasakura, 2012
  46. Ci-KCNQ1, an Ortholog of Vertebrate KCNQ1 from Ciona Intestinalis, has Revealed that KCNE1 and KCNE3 Utilize Different Domains of KCNQ1 for the Modulation of Gating, Nakajo, Koichi; Nishino, Atsuo; Okamura, Yasushi; Kubo, Yoshihiro , 2012
  47. Differential gene regulation by VIVand VVions in the branchial sac, intestine, and blood cells of a vanadium-rich ascidian,Ciona intestinalis, Satoshi Kume, Tatsuya Ueki, Hiroki Matsuoka, Mayuko Hamada, Nori Satoh, Hitoshi Michibata, 2012
  48. Evidence for Differential Regulation of GnRH Signaling via Heterodimerization among GnRH Receptor Paralogs in the Protochordate, Ciona intestinalis, Sakai, Tsubasa; Aoyama, Masato; Kawada, Tsuyoshi; Kusakabe, Takehiro; Tsuda, Motoyuki; Satake, Honoo , 2012
  49. Blood System Formation in the Urochordate Ciona intestinalis Requires the Variable Receptor vCRL1, Sommer, F.; Awazu, S.; Anton-Erxleben, F.; Jiang, D.; Klimovich, A. V.; Klimovich, B. V.; Samoilovich, M. P.; Satou, Y.; Kruss, M.; Gelhaus, C.; Kurn, U.; Bosch, T. C. G.; Khalturin, K. , 2012
  50. Protein nitration as footprint of oxidative stress-related nitric oxide signaling pathways in developing Ciona intestinalis, Elena Ercolesi; Gabriella Tedeschi; Gabriella Fiore; Armando Negri; Elisa Maffioli; Marco d’Ischia; Anna Palumbo, 2012

External links

  1. Homepage Jim Greenfield (British Marine Life) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Ciona intestinalis,Lake Merritt 2014
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Siphons of the solitary ascidian Ciona intestinalis 2022

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