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Hematological analysis of the ascidian Botrylloides leachii (Savigny, 1816) during whole-body regeneration

Blanchoud, Simon ; Zondag, Lisa ; Lamare, Miles D. ; Wilson, Megan J.

In: The Biological Bulletin, 2017, vol. 232, no. 3, p. 143–157

Whole-body regeneration (WBR)—the formation of an entire adult from only a small fragment of its own tissue—is extremely rare among chordates. Exceptionally, in the colonial ascidian Botrylloides leachii (Savigny, 1816) a fully functional adult is formed from their common vascular system after ablation of all adults from the colony in just 10 d, thanks to their high blastogenetic...