Respiration kinetics and allometric scaling in the demosponge Halichondria panicea [PDF]
Background The aquiferous system in sponges represents one of the simplest circulatory systems used by animals for the internal uptake and distribution of oxygen and metabolic substrates.
Lars Kumala +2 more
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A global dataset of demosponge distribution records [PDF]
Biodiversity information in the form of species occurrence records is key for monitoring and predicting current and future biodiversity patterns, as well as for guiding conservation and management strategies. However, the reliability and accuracy of this
Ariadni Vafeiadou +2 more
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The ontogeny of choanocyte chambers during metamorphosis in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica [PDF]
Background The aquiferous body plan of poriferans revolves around internal chambers comprised of choanocytes, a cell type structurally similar to choanoflagellates.
Shunsuke Sogabe +2 more
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Phylomitogenomics bolsters the high-level classification of Demospongiae (phylum Porifera). [PDF]
Class Demospongiae is the largest in the phylum Porifera (Sponges) and encompasses nearly 8,000 accepted species in three subclasses: Keratosa, Verongimorpha, and Heteroscleromorpha.
Dennis V Lavrov +6 more
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Microbiome changes in the sponge Halichondria panicea along the Baltic Sea salinity gradient [PDF]
The Baltic Sea is characterized by a strong salinity gradient, which impacts the diversity and composition of free-living macro- and microorganisms. Much less is known about how host-associated microorganisms are affected by decreasing salinities. Marine
Philipp Hoy +4 more
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The demosponge Leptomitus cf. L. lineatus, first occurence from the Middle Cambrian of Spain (Murero Formation, Western Iberian Chain) [PDF]
The Middle Cambrian Murero Formation in the Iberian Chain (NE Spain) has yielded a small collection of softbodied fossils (palaeoscolecid worms, onychophorans, algae), a host of fossils from organisms with mineralized skeletons such as trilobites and ...
Diego García-Bellido Capdevila
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Creation of a 3D Goethite–Spongin Composite Using an Extreme Biomimetics Approach [PDF]
The structural biopolymer spongin in the form of a 3D scaffold resembles in shape and size numerous species of industrially useful marine keratosan demosponges.
Anita Kubiak +17 more
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Life-cycle traits in the demosponge Hymeniacidon perlevis in a land-based fish farm [PDF]
Background The demosponge Hymeniacidon perlevis is characterized by wide geographic distribution and great adaptability to numerous and highly variable climatic and hydrological conditions.
Maria Mercurio +7 more
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A remarkable new halichondrid demosponge, Ptilospongia hemisphaeroidalis, from the latest Ordovician Beigong Biota, South China [PDF]
A new halichondrid demosponge bubarid Ptilospongia hemisphaeroidalis gen. et sp. nov. is described from the latest Ordovician Beigong Biota in Jingxian County, Anhui Province, South China.
Lixia Li, Joachim Reitner
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Some Like It Fat: Comparative Ultrastructure of the Embryo in Two Demosponges of the Genus Mycale (Order Poecilosclerida) from Antarctica and the Caribbean [PDF]
0000-0002-7993-1523© 2015 Riesgo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License [4.0], which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ...
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