Metazoans use silicon traces but rarely develop extensive silica skeletons, except for the
early-diverging lineage of sponges. The mechanisms underlying metazoan silicification …

Sponges are among the earliest branching extant animals. As such, genetic data from this
group are valuable for understanding the evolution of various traits and processes in other …

Sponges (phylum Porifera) were among the first metazoans on Earth, and represent a
unique global source of highly structured and diverse biosilica that has been formed and …

William Harvey was a great scientific integrator and so I have no hesitation in choosing
integration as the theme of my Oration. In his quest to understand the action of the heart and …

Abstract Sponges (Phylum Porifera) are aquatic sessile metazoans found worldwide in
marine and freshwater environments. They are significant in the animal tree of life as one of …

Synteny, the shared arrangement of genes on chromosomes between related species, is a
marker of shared ancestry, and synteny-breaking events can result in genomic …

Sponges (Porifera) are highly effective ecosystem engineers, playing a critical role in global
biogeochemical processes, including the nitrogen, carbon, and silica cycles. Because of …

This thesis introduces the implementation of some hybrid frameworks for quantum and
classical machine learning techniques associated with the fluid dynamics and heat transfer …