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Ciona intestinalis (Sea vase)

Ciona intestinalis. Photo: (c) Alison Young, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Ciona intestinalis (sometimes known by the common name of vase tunicate) is an ascidian (sea squirt), a tunicate with very soft tunic. Its Latin name means, literally, “pillar of intestines”, referring to the fact that its body is a soft, translucent column-like structure, resembling a mass of intestines sprouting from a rock. It is a globally distributed cosmopolitan species. Since Linnaeus described the species, Ciona intestinalis has been used as a model invertebrate chordate in developmental…

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