ReviewPloS one2011
Global diversity of Ascidiacea.
Review in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.
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68 citing papers in PubMed.
- Habituation and sensitization learning in adult solitary ascidians.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Didemnosides A and B: Antiproliferative Nucleosides from the Red Sea Marine TunicateMarine drugs · 2025Article
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- Chemical pollution drives taxonomic and functional shifts in marine sediment microbiome, influencing benthic metazoans.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Morphological Characteristics, Mitochondrial Genome, and Evolutionary Insights Into a New Sea Squirt From the Beibu Gulf.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Exploring the secrets of marine microorganisms: Unveiling secondary metabolites through metagenomics.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Review
- Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Women in tunicate research: Pioneers of the past and their present legacy.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2023Article
- Methods for cell isolation and analysis of the highly regenerative tunicateFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds-A Comprehensive Review.Progress in the chemistry of organic natural products · 2023Review
- Recent Advancement in Anticancer Compounds from Marine Organisms: Approval, Use and Bioinformatic Approaches to Predict New Targets.Marine drugs · 2022Review
- Molecular characterization of the immediate wound response of the solitary ascidian Polycarpa mytiligera.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2022Article
- Toward an atlas of Salish Sea biodiversity: the flora and fauna of Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada. Part I. Marine zoology.Biodiversity data journal · 2022Article
- Noninvasive Intravascular Microtransfusion in Colonial Tunicates.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
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- Gonadal Changes during the Annual Reproductive Cycle of the AscidianDevelopment & reproduction · 2021Article
- Antibacterial Bicyclic Fatty Acids from a Korean Colonial TunicateMarine drugs · 2021Article
- The Degenerate Tale of Ascidian Tails.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Review
- Symbiotic Associations in Ascidians: Relevance for Functional Innovation and Bioactive Potential.Marine drugs · 2021Review
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Abstract
The class Ascidiacea presents fundamental opportunities for research in the fields of development, evolution, ecology, natural products and more. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge regarding the global biodiversity of the class Ascidiacea, focusing in their taxonomy, main regions of biodiversity, and distribution patterns. Based on analysis of the literature and the species registered in the online World Register of Marine Species, we assembled a list of 2815 described species. The highest number of species and families is found in the order Aplousobranchia. Didemnidae and Styelidae families have the highest number of species with more than 500 within each group. Sixty percent of described species are colonial. Species richness is highest in tropical regions, where colonial species predominate. In higher latitudes solitary species gradually contribute more to the total species richness. We emphasize the strong association between species richness and sampling efforts, and discuss the risks of invasive species. Our inventory is certainly incomplete as the ascidian fauna in many areas around the world is relatively poorly known, and many new species continue to be discovered and described each year.
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