Tunicates encompass a large group of marine filter‐feeding animals and more than half of
them are able to reproduce asexually by a particular form of nonembryonic development …

Tunicates (ascidians) are common marine invertebrates that are an exceptionally important
source of natural products with biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, including …

Few tropical marine sites have been thoroughly characterised for their animal species, even
though they constitute the largest proportion of multicellular diversity. A number of focused …

We evaluated the quality of information about taxonomic identifications in 710 papers
published in seven zoological journals in 2017. We found that only 10.7% of papers cited …

Botryllids are colonial ascidians widely studied for their potential invasiveness and as model
organisms, however the morphological description and discrimination of these species is …

Ascidians are an ideal taxon to study invasion processes: they require anthropogenic
introduction vectors for long-distance dispersal, are easy to collect and monitor, and are …

In order to accelerate the isolation and characterization of structurally new or novel
secondary metabolites, it is crucial to develop efficient strategies that prioritize samples with …

The presence and diversity of marine non-native species, the number of new invasions, and
the impact on native communities and habitats are important metrics used to assess the …

A strongly divergent lineage, putatively a new cryptic species, of colonial ascidian was first
detected as an anomalous sample in a population genomics study of the well-known …

The Tunicata, despite the relatively low species diversity among the invertebrates, has
always received attention not only due to their ecological importance, especially in fouling …