Breakthrough in marine invertebrate cell culture: sponge cells divide rapidly in improved nutrient medium

M Conkling, K Hesp, S Munroe, K Sandoval… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Sponges (Phylum Porifera) are among the oldest Metazoa and considered critical
to understanding animal evolution and development. They are also the most prolific source …

Targeted predator defenses of sponges shape community organization and tropical marine ecosystem function

JL Wulff - Ecological Monographs, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Defenses that target particular consumers often influence community organization,
ecosystem function, and diversity maintenance. In coral reef, mangrove, and seagrass …

Molecular and functional ecology of sponges and their microbial symbionts

MS Hill, O Sacristán-Soriano - … Sponges: Impacts Across Multiple Levels of …, 2017 - Springer
Sponge-microbe symbiotic interactions are important features of modern marine
ecosystems. It is likely that these ancient partnerships are as old as the phylum Porifera …

From Prokaryota to Eumetazoa: Symbiotic Associations in Fossil and Recent Bryozoans

EA Bogdanov, AE Vishnyakov, AN Ostrovsky - Paleontological Journal, 2022 - Springer
The life of sedentary organisms faces strong competition for space against neighboring
epibionts, and the impact of predators. The emergence of various adaptations to cope these …

Climate change, ocean acidification and sponges

JL Carballo, JJ Bell - Cham: Springer, 2017 - Springer
Climate change, ocean acidification and sponges José Luis Carballo· James J. Bell Editors
Climate Change, Ocean Acidification and Sponges Impacts Across Multiple Levels of …

Epibiosis in sedimentary coastal environments: Effects of an introduced barnacle on a native mussel

GM Burgueno Sandoval, MA Narvarte… - Marine …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the mobile sedimentary environment of San Antonio Bay (northern Patagonia), where
hard substrate is scarce, the mussel Brachidontes rodriguezii dominates the intertidal zone …

A rugose coral–bryozoan association from the Lower Devonian of NW Spain

C Sendino, JLS Andrés, MA Wilson - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new rugose coral-cystoporate bryozoan association is here described from the Devonian
of NW Spain. This is the first evidence of intergrowths between Devonian rugose corals and …

Life in a living substrate: Modular endosymbionts of bryozoan hosts from the Devonian of Spain

JLS Andrés, C Sendino, MA Wilson - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2020 - Elsevier
A new bioclaustration structure is described from the Emsian (Lower Devonian) Aguión
Formation of Asturias, NW Spain. It is the result of intergrowth of two bryozoan species …

[PDF][PDF] Sponge epizoism in the Caribbean and the discovery of new Plakortis and Haliclona species, and polymorphism of Xestospongia deweerdtae (Porifera)

J Vicente, S Zea, RT Hill - Zootaxa, 2016 - researchgate.net
The new discovery by Vicente et al.(2014) of specialized epizoic symbioses between
sponges of the genera Plakortis and Xestospongia revealed the obligate interaction of two …

Ecological impacts of the austral-most population of Crassostrea gigas in South America: a matter of time?

MM Mendez, E Schwindt, A Bortolus, A Roche… - Ecological …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas is one of the most invasive species worldwide.
This oyster has a preponderant ecological role in the invaded environments, for example …