Aquatic invertebrates play a pivotal role in (eco) toxicological assessments because they
offer ethical, cost‐effective and repeatable testing options. Additionally, their significance in …

Botryllus schlosseri, a cosmopolitan colonial ascidian reared in the laboratory for more than
50 years, reproduces both sexually and asexually and is used as a model organism for …

Botryllus schlosseri is a colonial urochordate that follows the chordate plan of development
following sexual reproduction, but invokes a stem cell-mediated budding program during …

In the second half of the eighteenth century, Schlosser and Ellis described the colonial
ascidian Botryllus schlosseri garnering the interest of scientists around the world. In the …

The colonial tunicate Botrylloides leachi can regenerate functional adults from minute
vasculature fragments, in a poorly understood phenomenon termed Whole Body …

The diversity of regenerative phenomena seen in adult metazoans, as well as their
underlying mechanistic bases, are still far from being comprehensively understood …

Stem cell populations exist in" niches" that hold them and regulate their fate decisions.
Identification and characterization of these niches is essential for understanding stem cell …

Embryogenesis and asexual reproduction are commonly considered to be coordinated
developmental processes, which depend on accurate progression through a defined …

No comprehensive theory of development is available yet. Traditionally, we regard the
development of animals as a sequence of changes through which an adult multicellular …

Ontologies provide an important resource to integrate information. For developmental
biology and comparative anatomy studies, ontologies of a species are used to formalize and …