She has published ( under her maiden name, Patricia Kott ) more than 150 papers including her major monograph on the " Australian Ascidiacea " ( in four parts between 1985 and 2001 ).
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Unlike the related order Ascidiacea, which are sessile, but like the order Larvacea, they are free-floating; they take in a flow of water, from which they gather the plankton on which they feed.
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Vanadium, essential to ascidians and tunicates as vanabins, has been known in the blood cells of Ascidiacea ( sea squirts ) since 1911, in concentrations of vanadium in their blood more than 100 times higher than the concentration of vanadium in the seawater around them.
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A group of ?-carboline derivatives, termed eudistomins were extracted from ascidians ( marine tunicates of the family " Ascidiacea " ), like " Ritterella sigillinoides ", " Lissoclinum fragile " or " Pseudodistoma aureum ".
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"Botryllus schlosseri " ( class Ascidiacea ) is a colonial tunicate, a member of the only group of chordates that are able to reproduce both sexually and asexually . " B . schlosseri " is a sequential ( protogynous ) hermaphrodite, and in a colony, eggs are ovulated about two days before the peak of sperm emission.
