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A putative chordate luciferase from a cosmopolitan tunicate indicates convergent bioluminescence evolution across phyla. <i>NPG Scientific Reports 10(1)</i>: 11 pp. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73446-w\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73446-w</a>","BEntID":324097,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>NPG Scientific Reports 10(1)</i>: 11 pp. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73446-w\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73446-w</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Tessler, M.; Gaffney, J.P.; Oliveira, A.G.; Guarnaccia, A.; Dobi, K.C.; Gujarati, N.A.; Galbraith, M.; Mirza, J.D.; Sparks, J.S.; Pieribone, V.A.; Wood, R.J.; Gruber, D.F.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Tessler, M. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Pyrosomes are tunicates in the phylum Chordata, which also contains vertebrates. 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