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Como animales sésiles, las ascidias o tunicados albergan metabolitos secundarios para defenderse de los depredadores y competir por el sustrato, lo que hace que resulten tan interesantes como las esponjas en la búsqueda de compuestos bioactivos.
As sessile animals, Ascidians or tunicates host secondary metabolites against predation and to compete for substrate. Ascidians are therefore as interesting as sponges for the search of bioactive compounds.
La mayoría de los tunicados se alimentan por filtrado, pero este se ha vuelto un depredador y su agigantado sifón ha sido convertido en una trampa.
Most tunicates are filter feeders, but this one has become a predator and its greatly enlarged siphon has been converted into a trap.
Quizás los amos actuales provinieran de los tunicados.
Maybe the present masters of the planet would have had ancestors who were tunicates.
Entre los animales más bajos de la escala, y aun hasta en los tunicados, aquellos primeros primos de los animales vertebrados, los dos procesos ocurren por igual; pero, finalmente, el método sexual terminó por sobrepasar a su competidor.
Among the lower animals, up even to those first cousins of the vertebrated animals, the Tunicates, the two processes occur side by side, but finally the sexual method superseded its competitor altogether.
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