Interactive 3D PDF file for the structures 10 hr juvenile of Oikopleura dioica and supplementary movie S1-20 with high resolution

The larvacean, Oikopleura dioica is a planktonic chordate, which is an emerging model organism with short life cycle of 5 days and belongs to tunicates (urochordates). Organ formation in the trunk proceeds in seven hours form hatching of tailbud larvae at three hours after fertilization (hpf) to completion of organ formation in fully functional juveniles that start feeding at 10 hpf and are just miniature of adult form.

The juveniles were fixed at 10.5 hours post fertilization, 30 min after the tail shift (Nishida, H., 2008 Development of the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica: culture, genome, and cell lineages. Dev. Growth Differ. 50, S239–S256.). The data would be used as a basic morphological data of this animal to explore organ structures and cellular composition.

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