Polyandrocarpa misakiensis

Figure 13-8. SEM images of the tunic cords in P. misakiensis after treatment with UpdegrafF reagent, (a) Numerous tunic cords in random arrays are located on the inner surface of dorsal tunic, (b) A magnified image of a siphon, highlighted by a circle in (a). Tunic cords are often connected to the rim of the internal tunic just like an eyelet structure. Most of the tunic cords are coiled (c) and the apical end is observed as a swollen and ornamented structure (d). (Figures 11,5, and 7 from Kimura, S. and Itoh, T. 1998. A new cellulosic structure, the timic cord in the ascidian Polyandrocarpa misakiensis. Protoplasma 204 94-102. Reproduced with kind permission of Springer Science and Business Media).

Hirose E. and Mukai H. 1992. An ultrastructural study on the origin of glomerulocytes, a type of blood cell in a styelid ascidian, Polyandrocarpa misakiensis. J Morphol 211 269-273. 

Poget, F., Legge, G.B., Proctor, M.R., Butler, J.G., Bycroft, M., and Williams, R.L. (1999) The structure of a tunicate C-type lectin from Polyandrocarpa misakiensis complexed with D-galactose. /. Mol Biol, 290, 867-879. 

Suzuki, T, Takagi, T., Furukohri, T., Kawamura, K., and Nakauchi, M., 1990, A calcium-dependent galactosebinding lectin from the Tunicate Polyandrocarpa misakiensis Isolation, characterization, and amino acid sequence. J. Biol, Chem. 265 1274-1281. 

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