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Sponges Wp6: Threats And Impacts To Sponge Grounds

open access: yes, 2018
This fact sheet provides information on the Objectives and activities of Work Package 6 of the SponGES project: Threats and impacts to sponge grounds. Considering diverse anthropogenic stressors acting on the deep sea and the vulnerability of deep-sea sponges to human disturbance, it is urgent to understand the full scale of human impacts on these ...
FAO (4991135), FAO
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The Sponge Hologenome [PDF]

open access: yesmBio, 2016
ABSTRACT A paradigm shift has recently transformed the field of biological science; molecular advances have revealed how fundamentally important microorganisms are to many aspects of a host’s phenotype and evolution. In the process, an era of “holobiont” research has emerged to investigate the intricate network of interactions between
Webster, NS, Thomas, T
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Global diversity of sponges (Porifera). [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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SPONGE-GRAFTING. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1885
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Environmental Flow Regimes for Dysidea avara Sponges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The aim of our research is to design tank systems to culture Dysidea avara for the production of avarol. Flow information was needed to design culture tanks suitable for effective production. Water flow regimes were characterized over a 1-year period for
End, E.J., van den   +5 more
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Biological activities of ethanolic extracts from deep-sea antarctic marine sponges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We report on the screening of ethanolic extracts from 33 deep-sea Antarctic marine sponges for different biological activities. We monitored hemolysis, inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, cytotoxicity towards normal and transformed cells and growth ...
Jerneja Avguštin   +20 more
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Diversity and distribution patterns in high southern latitude sponges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Sponges play a key role in Antarctic marine benthic community structure and dynamics and are often a dominant component of many Southern Ocean benthic communities.
Downey Rachel V.   +11 more
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RIPPLE MARKS—The Story Behind the Story

open access: yesOceanography, 2013
Larsen A, it was called, the smallest and most northerly of the three Larsen ice shelves that once extended from the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula to the western Weddell Sea.
Cheryl Lyn Dybas
doaj   +1 more source

RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background: The marine sponge Tethya wilhelma and the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri are emerging model organisms to study evolution, gene regulation, development, and physiology in non-bilaterian animal systems. Thus far, functional methods (i.e.,
Posfai, Dora   +12 more
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Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Sponges belonging to the genera Amphilectus Vosmaer, Esperiopsis Carter and Ulosa de Laubenfels of the family Esperiopsidae were collected during 1986 and 1988 expeditions of the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis (at that time the National ...
Soest, Rob W. M. van   +8 more
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