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References

• Ascidiacea
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• Coll M, Piroddi C, Steenbeek J, Kaschner K, Ben Rais Lasram F, et al. 2010. The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats. PLoS ONE 5(8): e11842. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011842
• Coll, M., Piroddi C., Steenbeek J., Kaschner K., Ben Rais Lasram F., Aguzzi J., et al. (2010). The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats. PLoS ONE. 5(8), e11842.
• Coll, M., Piroddi C., Steenbeek J., Kaschner K., Ben Rais Lasram F., Aguzzi J., et al. (2010). The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats. PLoS ONE. 5(8), e11842.
• Corbo, J. C., DiGregorio A., & Levin M. (2001). The ascidian as a model organism in developmental and evolutionary biology. Cell. 106, 535-538.
• D.-G. Shu and L. Chen. 2001. An Early Cambrian tunicate from China. Nature 411:472-473
• Di Gregorio, A., & Hadjantonakis A-K. (2006). The multidimensionality of cell behaviors underlying morphogenesis: a case study in ascidians. BioEssays. 28(9), 874 - 879.
• Fautin, D., Dalton P., Incze L. S., Leong J-A. C., Pautzke C., Rosenberg A., et al. (2010). An Overview of Marine Biodiversity in United States Waters. PLoS ONE. 5(8), e11914.
• Foy, Sally; Oxford Scientific Films. 1982. The Grand Design: Form and Colour in Animals. Lingfield, Surrey, U.K.: BLA Publishing Limited for J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, Aldine House, London. 238 p.
• Fujikura K, Lindsay D, Kitazato H, Nishida S, Shirayama. 2010. Marine Biodiversity in Japanese Waters. PLoS ONE 5(8): e11836. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011836
• Fujikura, K., Lindsay D., Kitazato H., Nishida S., & Shirayama Y. (2010). Marine Biodiversity in Japanese Waters. PLoS ONE. 5(8), e11836.
• Gama, P B., Leonel R. M. V., Hernández M. I. M., & Mothes B. (2006). Recruitment and colonization of colonial ascidians (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) on intertidal rocks in Northeastern Brazil. Iheringia. Série Zoologia. 96(2),
• Griffiths CL, Robinson TB, Lange L, Mead A, 2010. Marine Biodiversity in South Africa: An Evaluation of Current States of Knowledge. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12008. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012008
• Griffiths HJ. 2010. Antarctic Marine Biodiversity ? What Do We Know About the Distribution of Life in the Southern Ocean?. PLoS ONE 5(8): e11683. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011683
• Griffiths, C. L., Robinson T. B., Lange L., & Mead A. (2010). Marine Biodiversity in South Africa: An Evaluation of Current States of Knowledge. PLoS ONE. 5(8), e12008.
• Griffiths, H. J. (2010). Antarctic Marine Biodiversity – What Do We Know About the Distribution of Life in the Southern Ocean?. (Unsworth R., Ed.).PLoS ONE. 5(8), e11683.
• HUHTALA, M., HEINO J., CASCIARI D., DELUISE A., & JOHNSON M. (2005). Integrin evolution: Insights from ascidian and teleost fish genomes. Matrix Biology. 24(2), 83 - 95.
• Hibino, T., Nishikata T., & Nishida H. (1998). Centrosome-attracting body: A novel structure closely related to unequal cleavages in the ascidian embryo. Development Growth & Differentiation. 40, 85-95.
• Hirose, E., Ohtsuka K., Ishikura M., & Maruyama T. (2004). Ultraviolet absorption in ascidian tunic and ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 84(4), 789 - 794.
• Hughes, R. N. (2005). Lessons in modularity: the evolutionary ecology of colonial invertebrates. Scientia Marina. 69, 169-179.
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• Kawamura, K., & Sugino Y. M. (1999). Cell adhesion in the process of asexual reproduction of tunicates. Microscopy Research and Technique. 44, 269-278.
• Koike, I., & Suzuki T. (1996). Nutritional diversity of symbiotic ascidians in a Fijian seagrass meadow. Ecological Research. 11(3), 381 - 386.
• Lambert, C. C. (2005). Historical introduction, overview, and reproductive biology of the protochordates. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 83(1), 1 - 7.
• Lambert, G. (2005). Ecology and natural history of the protochordates. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 83(1), 34 - 50.
• Lambert, G. (2005). Ecology and natural history of the protochordates. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 83(1), 34 - 50.
• Mastrototaro, F., D'Onghia G., & Tursi A. (2008). Spatial and seasonal distribution of ascidians in a semi-enclosed basin of the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 88(05),
• McHenry, M. J., & Patek S. N. (2004). The evolution of larval morphology and swimming performance in ascidians. Evolution. 58, 1209-1224.
• Meinertzhagen, L. A., & Okamura Y. (2001). The larval ascidian nervous system: the chordate brain from its small beginnings. Trends in Neurosciences. 24, 401-410.
• Millar, R. H. (1970). Ascidians, including specimens from the deep sea, collected by the R.V. ‘Vema’ and now in the American Museum of Natural History. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 49(2), 99 - 159.
• Nakaya, F., Saito Y., & Motokawa T. (2003). Switching of metabolic-rate scaling between allometry and isometry in colonial ascidians. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 270(1520), 1105 - 1113.
• Nakaya, F., Saito Y., & Motokawa T. (2005). Experimental allometry: effect of size manipulation on metabolic rate of colonial ascidians. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 272(1575), 1963 - 1969.
• Nishida, H., Satoh N., & Hirose E. (2010). More Diversity and More Convergence in Tunicate Biology. Zoological Science. 27(2), 67 - 68.
• Pisut, D., & Pawlik J. R. (2002). Anti-predatory chemical defenses of ascidians: secondary metabolites or inorganic acids?. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 270(2), 203 - 214.
• Ruppert, E. E., Fox R. S., & Barnes R. D. (2004). Chordata. Invertebrate Zoology: a Functional Evolutionary Approach. 940-952. Belmont, CA: Thomson: Brooks/Cole.
• Satoh, N. (1994). Developmental Biology of Ascidians. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
• Satoh, N. (2001). Ascidian embryos as a model system to analyze expression and function of developmental genes. Differentiation. 68, 1-12.
• Satoh, N. (2003). The ascidian tadpole larva: comparative molecular development and genomics. Nature Reviews Genetics. 4(4), 285 - 295.
• Satoh, N., Makabe K. W., Katsuyama Y., Wada S., & Saiga H. (1996). The ascidian embryo: An experimental system for studying genetic circuitry for embryonic cell specification and morphogenesis. Development Growth & Differentiation. 38, 325-340.
• Silva, N., & Smith W. C. (2008). Inverse Correlation of Population Similarity and Introduction Date for Invasive Ascidians. (Stajich J.E., Ed.).PLoS ONE. 3(6), e2552.
• Smith, M., & Dehnel P. (1971). The composition of tunic from four species of ascidians☆. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 40(3), 615 - 622.
• Stemple, D. L. (2005). Structure and function of the notochord: an essential organ for chordate development. Development. 132(11), 2503 - 2512.
• Tsuda, M., Kawakami I., & Shiraishi S. (2003). Sensitization and habituation of the swimming behavior in ascidian larvae to light. Zoological Science. 20, 13-22.
• Wells, A., and W. W. K. Houston, eds. 1998. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, vol. 34. xiii + 298
• Young, C. (1988). Ascidian cannibalism correlates with larval behavior and adult distribution. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 117(1), 9 - 26.
• Yund, P. O., Murdock K., & Johnson S. L. (2007). Spatial distribution of ascidian sperm: two-dimensional patterns and short vs. time-integrated assays. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 341, 103-109.
• [Anonymous] (2007). CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS. International Invasive Sea Squirt Conference - II - Canada (Oct. 2-4, 2007).
• [Anonymous] (2010). CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS. International Invasive Sea Squirt Conference-III.