Stefano Tiozzo

Multi-stage single-cell atlas of a chordate non-embryonic development unveils dedifferentiating bud founder cells

Abstract Colonial tunicates are the only chordates capable of forming fully functional bodies from somatic tissues through non-embryonic development, or budding. In Botryllus schlosseri , budding produces new individuals (zooids) from a portion of the peribranchial epithelium of...