A5020743993- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Environmental Science and Water Management
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research
- Marine and fisheries research
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Dupuytren's Contracture and Treatments
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
2009-2024
Weizmann Institute of Science
2024
National Institute of Oceanography
2007-2014
ABSTRACT Aquatic invertebrates play a pivotal role in (eco)toxicological assessments because they offer ethical, cost‐effective and repeatable testing options. Additionally, their significance the food chain ability to represent diverse aquatic ecosystems make them valuable subjects for studies. To ensure consistency comparability across studies, international (eco)toxicology guidelines have been used establish standardised methods protocols data collection, analysis interpretation. However,...
ABSTRACT Adult stem cells (ASCs) in vertebrates and model invertebrates (e.g. Drosophila melanogaster ) are typically long‐lived, lineage‐restricted, clonogenic quiescent with somatic descendants tissue/organ‐restricted activities. Such ASCs mostly rare, morphologically undifferentiated, undergo asymmetric cell division. Characterized by ‘stemness’ gene expression, they can regulate tissue/organ homeostasis, repair regeneration. By contrast, analysis of other animal phyla shows that emerge...
Members of the Cnidaria phylum were studied for centuries to depict source their unprecedented regeneration capacity. Although adult stem cells (ASCs) have been recognized in tissue growth/regeneration many hydrozoans, there has not any evidence them ancestral Anthozoa class. This study sheds light on development epidermal epithelium expansion, akin blastema, during after small circular incisions (each 2.77 mm2) and natural expansion across a flat surface scleractinian coral Stylophora...
Proteins of the highly conserved PL-10 (Ded1P) subfamily DEAD-box family, participate in a wide variety biological functions. However, entire spectrum their functions both vertebrates and invertebrates is still unknown. Here, we isolated Botryllus schlosseri (Urochordata) homologue, BS-PL10, revealing its distributions ontogeny colony astogeny. In botryllid ascidians, grows by increasing number modular units (each called zooid) through whole synchronized weekly cyclical astogenic budding...
The patterning of the modular body plan in colonial organisms is termed astogeny, as distinct from ontogeny, development an individual organism embryo to adult. Evolutionarily conserved signaling pathways suggest shared roots and common uses for both ontogeny astogeny. Botryllid ascidians, a widely dispersed group tunicates, exhibit intricate life form, which astogeny develops weekly, highly synchronized growth/death cycles blastogenesis, abiding by strictly regulated plan. In these form...
Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) often relies on a restricted set of species as bio-indicators, introducing uncertainty when modeling complex environmental variables. This may lead to oversimplified or erroneous risk assessments. Ascidians, marine filter-feeding sessile chordates, are valuable models for scientific research in various biological fields such stem cell biology, embryogenesis, regeneration, innate immunity, and developmental biology. Their global distribution, sensitivity...
Environmental perturbations evoke down-regulation of metabolism in some multicellular organisms, leading to dormancy, or torpor. Colonies the urochordate Botrylloides leachii enter torpor response changes seawater temperature and may survive for months as small vasculature remnants that lack feeding reproductive organs but possess torpor-specific microbiota. Upon returning milder conditions, colonies rapidly restore their original morphology, cytology functionality while harboring...
The “stem cells” discipline represents one of the most dynamic areas in biomedicine. While adult marine/aquatic invertebrate stem cell (MISC) biology is prime research and medical interest, studies on cells from organisms outside classical vertebrate (e.g., human, mouse, zebrafish) Drosophila, Caenorhabditis) models have not been pursued vigorously. Marine/aquatic invertebrates constitute largest biodiversity widest phylogenetic radiation Earth, morphologically simple sponges, cnidarians),...
(1) Background: Desalination is a developing industry that keeps expanding, nowadays counting >15,000 infrastructures worldwide. A byproduct of the desalination process concentrated brine, further containing operational chemicals, including antiscalants and coagulants. Yet, potential genotoxic impacts inclusive brine are inadequately studied. (2) Methods: In vitro in vivo assays were used to test representative antiscalant coagulant. The model cnidarian Nematostella vectensis was employed...