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+[[!meta title="Behavioral ontogeny in a pelagic tunicate reveals the deep origins of chordate behavioral developmental plasticity"]]
+[[!tag bioRxiv Oikopleura]]
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+Oleg Tolstenkov, Rodolfo da Silva Mazzarini Baldinotti, Sissel Norland, Anne Elin Aasjord, Daniel Chourrout, Marios Chatzigeorgiou
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+bioRxiv 2025.12.03.692109; doi: 10.64898/2025.12.03.692109
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+Behavioral ontogeny in a pelagic tunicate reveals the deep origins of chordate behavioral developmental plasticity
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+[[!doi 10.64898/2025.12.03.692109 desc="“We built a behavioral atlas of the planktonic tunicate Oikopleura dioica across its life cyclefrom larval to adult stages using high-throughput tracking and unsupervised analysis.”"]]
- The brain of _B. stygius_ contains a number of cells comparable to the one of
_O. dioica_ ([[Zemann and coll., 2003|biblio/37313762]]).
-Physiology
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+Physiology and behaviour
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- Searching for an immune system, [[Denoeud et al., 2010|biblio/21097902]] excluded
LRR proteins, as none of the 74 models found had a transmembrane domain.
- In line with the absence of peroxisomes in _O. dioica_, no wax esters
(storage lipids) were found in _O vanhoeffenni_, which is mostly containing
phospholipids [[Deibel and coll.,1992|biblio/m088p297]].
+ - Quantitative study of _O. dioica_ behaviour: [[Tolstenkov and coll., 2025|biblio/10.64898_2025.12.03.692109]].
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