Draft genome of Bugula neritina a colonial animal packing powerful symbionts and potential medicines

摘要

(a) Whole colony of a preserved B. neritina. Scale bar represents 10 mm. (b) Light micrograph of a preserved fecund B. neritina colony, with feeding zooids (in square brackets) arranged bi-serially and ovicells (arrowed). (c) One live ancestrula (a), the first feeding zooid developed from a larva, and a juvenile B. neritina colony (j) with two fully developed autozooids with extended lophophores (l), at the base of which are the mouths of each feeding zooid.