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Viral ecogenomics across the Porifera [PDF]
Microbiome, 2020 Viruses directly affect the most important biological processes in the ocean via their regulation of prokaryotic and eukaryotic populations. Marine sponges form stable symbiotic partnerships with a wide diversity of microorganisms and this high symbiont ...
Cecília Pascelli +7 more
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Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology, 2021 Poriferans (sponges) are sessile aquatic (largely marine) animals that are found in almost all benthic habitats. There are an estimated 15,000 species living today, although many have not been described (reviewed in Hooper and Van Soest 2002). The sponge body plan is amongst the simplest in the animal kingdom and lacks nerve and muscle cells and a ...
M. Adamska
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Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera) [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2015 BackgroundDemospongiae is the largest sponge class including 81% of all living sponges with nearly 7,000 species worldwide. Systema Porifera (2002) was the result of a large international collaboration to update the Demospongiae higher taxa ...
Christine Morrow, P. Cárdenas
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Porifera of Greece: an updated checklist [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2016 Background The checklist of Porifera of Greece was created in the framework of the Greek Taxon Information System (GTIS), an initiative of the LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) that has resumed efforts to compile a complete checklist of ...
E. Voultsiadou +2 more
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MRTF specifies a muscle-like contractile module in Porifera
Nature Communications, 2022 Muscle-based movement is a hallmark of animal biology, but the evolutionary origins of myocytes are unknown. Although believed to lack muscles, sponges (Porifera) are capable of coordinated whole-body contractions that purge debris from internal water ...
J. Colgren, S. Nichols
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PeerJ, 2021 Microplastics (MP) are now considered ubiquitous across global aquatic environments. The ingestion of MP by fish and other marine vertebrates is well studied, but the ingestion of MP by marine invertebrates is not.
Bailey Fallon, C. Freeman
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A Review on Genus Halichondria (Demospongiae, Porifera)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Demosponges of the genus Halichondria Fleming (1828) are common in coastal marine ecosystems worldwide and have been well-studied over the last decades.
Josephine Goldstein, P. Funch
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Molecular biology and evolution, 2020 All animals are capable of undergoing gametogenesis. The ability of forming haploid cells from diploid cells through meiosis and recombination appeared early in eukaryotes, whereas further gamete differentiation is mostly a metazoan signature ...
V. Koutsouveli +6 more
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Hg Levels in Marine Porifera of Montecristo and Giglio Islands (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy)
Applied Sciences, 2020 Porifera are filter-feeding organisms known to bioaccumulate different contaminants in their tissues. The presence of mercury (Hg) has been reported in different Mediterranean species, mainly collected in the southern coast of France.
C. Roveta +7 more
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Scientia Marina, 2013 The family Acarnidae is characterized by sponges with ectosomal diactinal spicules and choanosomal monactinal spicules. Microscleres include palmate isochelae, toxas and echinating acanthostyles.
Jose Maria Aguilar-Camacho +2 more
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