Science Biology This tiny sea creature builds a ‘snot palace’ to capture food Oikopleura dioica’s feeding processes could help design new water pumps systems. Andrew Paul Jan 9, 2024 11:30 ...

The 'Year of the Genome' ended with the publication of a tiny genome, that of the marine chordate Oikopleura dioica. Oikopleura is a small pelagic chordate that measures just 5mm. It is easy to ...

Oikopleura dioica is a tiny zooplankton that inhabits the ocean surface worldwide, and which is used as a model organism in developmental biology. As a chordate, the organism shares key genetic ...

The cosmopolitan appendicularian Oikopleura dioica reveals hidden genetic diversity around the globe. Mar Biol 169, 157 (2022). Credit pictures: Aki Masunaga and Alfonso Ferrandez-Roldán ...

A new study proves once more that evolution does not always imply more complexity or more genes in living beings. The planktonic organism Oikopleura dioica, an animal model in the study of ...

Acute toxicity testing revealed a remarkable sensitivity of Oikopleura dioica to BPA exposure, with a median lethal concentration (LC50) of merely 0.14 mg/L, 1–2 orders of magnitude lower than ...

The Paper T. Omotezako et al., “DNA interference: DNA-induced gene silencing in the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica,” Proc R Soc B, 282:20150435, 2015. Accidental discovery Scientists often exploit ...

Cañestro believes that Oikopleura losing those genes accelerated its heart development, which could be adaptive for the creature’s free-living lifestyle because it needs to immediately begin ...

Kyle Michael James Mayers, Janice Lawrence, Katrine Sandnes Skaar, Joachim Paul Töpper, Elzbieta Petelenz, Marius Rydningen Saltvedt, Ruth-Anne Sandaa, Aud Larsen, Gunnar Bratbak, Jessica Louise Ray, ...

F. Lombard, E. Selander, T. Kiørboe, Active prey rejection in the filter-feeding appendicularian Oikopleura dioica, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2011 ...