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The worms tended to be aggregated, nearly filling the body cavities of zooids in certain regions of the colony.
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The zooids generally have at least one adventitious avicularia on their frontal wall near the orifice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Like in other gymnolaematans, their lophophore is protruded by muscles that pull on the frontal wall of thezooid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has large 2-4 cm cylindrical zooids.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other zooids link to the phorozooids, which then detach themselves from the nurse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Doliolids have a very complex lifecycle that includes various zooids with different functions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other zooids in the colony perform digestion and reproduction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Breeding occurs between separate male and female zooids within the colony in autumn and winter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Kenozooids may be present in a few species; modified zooids analogous to avicularia are rare.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other zooids link to the phorozooids which then detach themselves from the nurse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The individual zooids are bright red, 12 mm long and arranged in small systems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An ascidian colony consists of individual elements called "zooids".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some freshwater species secrete a mass of gelatinous material, up to 1m ft in diameter, to which the zooids stick.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Subsequentzooidreplication can lead to coalescence and circulatory fusion of the subcolonies.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The autozooids are in two rows along the stolons, eachzooidbeing sac-like and 0.4to0.6mm 3 in length.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The nurse and its battery of feeding zooids goes on until all carriers leave, and then the whole colony dies off.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The nurse produces buds (which grow into new zooids) in its ventral stalk, but the buds grow and mature on its dorsal stalk.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All the zooids of a colony are asexually produced from one parentzooid.
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