Sea Squirts: our Distant Cousins
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Description: Article by Wim van Egmond on the life cycle and development of these Ascidians with several photographs.
Sea squirts, our distant cousins Just beneath the surface of the ocean floats a tiny egg. Within its hull of follicle cells the embryo of , a sea squirt or Ascidian, is beginning to develop. The shape of the egg does not give any clue of the creature that it is going to be. Now about a third of a millimeter it is waiting to become a larva, and this larva is a rather surprising creature.
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| Keywords: | microscopy, plankton, primitive organisms, vertebrates, vertebrata, chordata, chordates, tunicates, ancestral, origin, backbone, oceanic organisms,larval development,Tunicata,Botryllus, sea life, sea creatures, ocean, nature photography, natural history, oceanic life, biology, microscopy, photomicrography, microscopy-uk, Ascidians, amateur microscopy, Micscape |
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