1. The sea squirt larva is not the only filter-feeder with such a significant rod in its back.

2. Here's a tunicate, also called a sea squirt, which is in Chordata, anda crab, in Arthropoda.

3. They were studying the sea squirt, an animal that reproduces by spewing sperm and eggs into the water and leaving the rest to chance.

4. LOOK at the genome of a sea squirt and you'll get a nasty surprise.

5. Trabectedin is a synthetic version of a compound isolated from the sea squirt, a tubular sea animal used in a number of medical studies.

6. What remains — the adult ganglion — controls feeding and reproduction. But does a sea squirt eat its own brain?