Sponges: Porifera
Screening for Cultivable Species of Marine Sponges (porifera) in an Ecologically Inspired ex situ System
... of sponges (Porifera) in ex situ cultivation systems is essential to the progress of researches on pharmacology, biomaterials, biomonitoring and ...marine sponges tested, only Haliclona ...
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Heterologous expression of DsRed2 in young sponges (Porifera)
... ABSTRACT Sponges (Porifera) are currently considered to be the first branch off the Urmetazoa, common ancestors of all multicellular animals or ...of sponges was restricted to morphological ...
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A taxonomic study of tropical marine sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae: Haplosclerida and Petrosida) using morphological, chemical and reproductive character sets
... In November 1986 individuals of the IndoPacific species Xestospongia testudinaria from the Great Barrier Reef were observed with extruded eggs over the external surface of the sponge and[r] ...
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Seven new species of sponges (Porifera) from deep-sea coral mounds at Campos Basin (SW Atlantic)
... Knowledge of the deep sea sponges occurring off Bra- zil was gained over two important periods, firstly from the H.M.S. Challenger expedition of 1873–1876, and secondly, from a still ongoing effort, that started ...
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A taxonomic study of tropical marine sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae: Haplosclerida and Petrosida) using morphological, chemical and reproductive character sets
... FAMILIES AND GENERA in italics AUFHOR YEAR ORDER Griessinger 1971 Haplosclerida Haliclonidae: Haliclona, Callyspongia Renieridae Wiedenmayer 1977a Haplosclerida Haliclonidae: Haliclona, [r] ...
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An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)
... In contrast, addition of morphological characters to the Hexasterophora matrix had some noticeable effects: In the ML tree (Additional file 25: Figure S11), the exact positions of Ascone[r] ...
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Comparative description of ten transcriptomes of newly sequenced invertebrates and efficiency estimation of genomic sampling in non-model taxa
... Many invertebrate phyla have been overlooked for gen- ome and transcriptome sequencing priority, and for some groups, genomic data are particularly scarce. Among them, sponges (Porifera), ribbon worms ...
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Diverse cell junctions with unique molecular composition in tissues of a sponge (Porifera)
... Organisms of critical importance for reconstructing early steps in the evolution of animal cell adhesion mech- anisms are the sponges (Porifera). They are one of the most phylogenetically divergent groups ...
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Antibacterial Activity and GC-Mass Analysis of Organic Extract from Persian Gulf Haliclona SP
... Marine sponges (Porifera) are considered to be true “chemical factories” producing natural compounds which have been identified and elucidated by physical and spectroscopic properties, but their ...
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Kinetics and rhythm of body contractions in the sponge Tethya wilhelma (Porifera: Demospongiae)
... There have been many discussions concerning the nature of the contractile tissue in sponges (Jones, 1962). The two hypothetical principles are: (1) the contraction of the mesohyle is due to a contractile cell type ...
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Two marine sponges-associated cultivable bacteria: Diversity and biological activities
... Proteobacteria and mostly bacteria belong to genus Vibrio where twenty-three different species were identified from total isolated bacteria (Table 2). Vibrio is a genus of marine bacteria comprising of 74 species and ...
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Retinoid X receptor and retinoic acid response in the marine sponge Suberites domuncula
... (phylum Porifera) represent the oldest, still extant taxon of the common ancestor of all metazoans, the Urmetazoa (Müller, ...In sponges the establishment of a bodyplan is organized through these proteins ...
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Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera)
... Systema Porifera (SP) [1] was the result of a collab- oration of 45 researchers from 17 countries led by edi- tors ...living sponges with nearly 7,000 species and more than 50 new species on average ...
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The Porifera Ontology (PORO): enhancing sponge systematics with an anatomy ontology
... For a period in the 1990s, sponges were amongst the domains modeled in pioneering Expert System research [4,6]. In particular, SPONGIA was a rule-based system for classifying the species of a sponge given as input ...
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CHARACTERISTIC OF LIVING THINGS [Autosaved]
... Porifera (sponges ) Cells organized into tissues Cnidarians (stinging cells) Platyhelminthe s (flatworms) Nematodes (roundworms ) Internal Organs Develop Pro tos tom es (m ou th d ev [r] ...
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The assessment of DNA from marine organisms via a modified salting-out protocol
... Abstract: We developed a rapid, practical and non-toxic salting-out method for the extraction of DNA from marine organisms, and tested it on two representative species of Porifera and Cnidaria, both living in ...
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The Role of Sponges in Structuring Tropical Nearshore Ecosystems
... I am also interested in determining how the context dependent nature of the H. melanadocia-T. testudinum interaction effects the rate of carbon storage in seagrass beds (building on the snapshot estimate I presented in ...
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Screening for Acinetobacter baumannii Colonization by Use of Sponges
... sterile sponges to sample large areas of the skin would improve the sensitivity of the detection of ...sterile sponges was easy to perform and achieved excellent sensitivity for the detection of ...
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Environmental Records from Corals and Coralline Sponges
... One of the difficulties with using coralline sponges is translating distance to time. In corals, annual growth bands and trace element cycles permit the generation of time series data relatively easily. Coralline ...
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Tight Bounds for Keyed Sponges and Truncated CBC
... The truncated CBC result makes it evident that security requires either r fairly small (this is the case when using AES with n “ 128), or a restriction on the maximum number of queries q, or the usage of a block cipher ...
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