Image of Star ascidian
Description:
Each individual in this colony lives for about seven days and then dies by 'programmed cell death.' Here new individuals are being budded off lateral to the smaller senescent ones.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Tunicata (tunicates)
- Ascidiacea (Ascidian)
- Stolidobranchia
- Styelidae
- Botryllus
- Botryllus schlosseri (Star ascidian)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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