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Marine Drugs, 2023 Marine sponges are highly efficient in removing organic pollutants and their cultivation, adjacent to fish farms, is increasingly considered as a strategy for improving seawater quality.
Despoina Varamogianni-Mamatsi +12 more
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Uncovering the hidden diversity of Paleogene sponge fauna of the East European Platform through reassessment of the record of isolated spicules [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Despite being reported from various localities and stratigraphic intervals, knowledge of the siliceous sponges from the Cenozoic of Eastern Europe remains surprisingly limited.
Magdalena Łukowiak +2 more
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Biomolecules, 2023 Sponges are aquatic, spineless organisms that belong to the phylum Porifera. They come in three primary classes: Hexactinellidae, Demospongiae, and Calcarea. The Demospongiae class is the most dominant, making up over 90% of sponge species.
Fikri Akmal Khodzori +5 more
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Eocene phymaraphiniid demosponges from South Western Australia: filling the gap
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 We describe two new genera of phymaraphiniid lithistid sponges Twertupia gen. nov. and Pickettispongia gen. nov. from the upper Eocene Pallinup Formation of South Western (SW) Australia based on new, rich and very well preserved material. Type material
ANDRZEJ PISERA +2 more
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Environmental DNA, 2022 Despite their ecological importance, sponges are often avoided in biodiversity studies and monitoring programs because they are notoriously difficult to identify using morphological or molecular methods. Here, we investigate the metabarcoding performance
Molly A. Timmers +4 more
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Chemotaxonomy of Agelas (Porifera: Demospongiae) [PDF]
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 1992 The secondary metabolite content of four different species of Agelas (Porifera) from the West Indies has been studied. All the compounds isolated are already known metabolites whose identification was confirmed by comparison of their spectral properties with those reported in the literature.
Braekman, Jean Claude +3 more
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Implementation of the benefits of symbiotic bacteria in Demospongiae sponges in Indonesian waters using the literature study method [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesA Demospongiae sponge is an organism that can interact with symbiotic bacteria. Symbiotic bacteria form a specific mutualistic symbiosis that creates a stable and beneficial association with their hosts. This review examines the diversity and benefits of
Imanditya Muhammad Fachriza +10 more
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Global diversity of sponges (Porifera). [PDF]
, 2012 With the completion of a single unified classification, the Systema Porifera (SP) and subsequent development of an online species database, the World Porifera Database (WPD), we are now equipped to provide a first comprehensive picture of the global ...
Jean Vacelet +47 more
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Dosilia (Porifera, Demospongiae) redefined [PDF]
Iheringia. Série Zoologia, 2010 Dosilia plumosa (Carter, 1849), type species of the genus, and D. brouni (Kirkpatrick, 1906), with distribution respectively in the Oriental and Ethiopic regions, are revised based on a SEM analysis of spicules, gemmules and skeletal structure. The lectotype here designated for D.
Cândido, Jairo Luís +2 more
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Scientia Marina, 2011 Three new species of Poecillastra are described here from bathyal waters off central Chile. P. antonbruunae n. sp. is diagnosed by its two categories of oxeas, the smaller one only up to 621 μm in length, and calthrops as the sole triaene category; P ...
Mariana S. Carvalho +2 more
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