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A Soft Spot for Chemistry–Current Taxonomic and Evolutionary Implications of Sponge Secondary Metabolite Distribution

scientific article published in 2021

A fragmented metazoan organellar genome: the two mitochondrial chromosomes of Hydra magnipapillata

scientific article

A hexapod nuclear SSU rRNA secondary-structure model and catalog of taxon-specific structural variation

scientific article published in January 2006

A mitochondrial intron in a verongid sponge

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

A morphometric and genetic framework for the genus Gazella de Blainville, 1816 (Ruminantia: Bovidae) with special focus on Arabian and Levantine mountain gazelles

scientific article (publication date: 11 October 2013)

A new and unique species of the genus Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) from Southern Iran: A case of regressive evolution

scientific article published in April 2014

A new species of lithistid sponge hiding within the Isabella mirabilis species complex (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida) from seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2016)

A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

A survey for biochemical synapomorphies to reveal phylogenetic relationships of halichondrid demosponges (Metazoa: Porifera)

scientific article published on 22 March 2005

Affinities of the family Sollasellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae). II. Molecular evidence

scientific article published in 2007

Amassing diversity in an ancient lake: evolution of a morphologically diverse parthenogenetic gastropod assemblage in Lake Malawi

scientific article published in February 2007

An extraordinary gobioid fish fossil from Southern France

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Analysis of evolutionary, biogeographical and taxonomic patterns of nucleotide composition in demosponge rRNA

scientific article published on 03 December 2007

Antibacterial scalarane from Doriprismatica stellata nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), egg ribbons, and their dietary sponge Spongia cf. agaricina (Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida)

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Antiprotozoal Linear Furanosesterterpenoids from the Marine Sponge Ircinia oros.

scientific article

Barcoding sponges: an overview based on comprehensive sampling

scientific article

Bearing the wrong identity: A case study of an Indo-Pacific common shallow water sponge of the genus Neopetrosia (Haplosclerida; Petrosiidae)

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

Bottomless barrel-sponge species in the Indo-Pacific?

scientific article

CO I barcoding reveals new clades and radiation patterns of Indo-Pacific sponges of the family Irciniidae (Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida)

scientific article

Calcinea of the Red Sea: providing a DNA barcode inventory with description of four new species

Camouflaged invasion of Lake Malawi by an Oriental gastropod

scientific article

Candidate chemoreceptor subfamilies differentially expressed in the chemosensory organs of the mollusc Aplysia

scientific article published on 4 June 2009

Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition

scientific article

Compositional and Quantitative Insights Into Bacterial and Archaeal Communities of South Pacific Deep-Sea Sponges (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida)

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Deceptive desmas: molecular phylogenetics suggests a new classification and uncovers convergent evolution of lithistid demosponges

scientific article

Discovery of the freshwater sponge genus Corvospongilla Annandale (Porifera: Spongillida) in Australia with the description of a new species and phylogeographic implications

scientific article published on 9 August 2021

Divergence times in demosponges (Porifera): first insights from new mitogenomes and the inclusion of fossils in a birth-death clock model

article

Diversity of two widespread Indo-Pacific demosponge species revisited

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

scientific article

Endemic Lake Baikal sponges from deep water. 1: Potential cryptic speciation and discovery of living species known only from fossils

scientific article (publication date: 23 July 2015)

Endemic Lake Baikal sponges from deep water. 2: Taxonomy and Bathymetric Distribution

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2017)

Evolution of group I introns in Porifera: new evidence for intron mobility and implications for DNA barcoding

scientific article

Evolution, radiation and chemotaxonomy of Lamellodysidea, a demosponge genus with anti-plasmodial metabolites

scientific article published on 5 February 2012

Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Diaz & Pomponi, 1990

book chapter

First evidence of miniature transposable elements in sponges (Porifera)

article

First record of a living species of the genus Janulum (Class Demospongiae) in the Southern Hemisphere

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2015)

Global diversity of sponges (Porifera)

scientific article published on 27 April 2012

Horny sponges and their affairs: on the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges

scientific article

Identification of an aquaculture poriferan "Pest with Potential" and its phylogenetic implications

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Identification, characterization and phylogenetic signal of an elongation factor-1 alpha fragment in demosponges (Metazoa, Porifera, Demospongiae)

scientific article published on 24 June 2005

Insights into the evolution of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae: Spongillina): Barcoding and phylogenetic data from Lake Tanganyika endemics indicate multiple invasions and unsettle existing taxonomy.

scientific article

Lock, stock and two different barrels: comparing the genetic composition of morphotypes of the indo-pacific sponge Xestospongia testudinaria

scientific article

Managing and sharing the escalating number of sponge "unknowns": the SpongeMaps project.

scientific article

Minimalist barcodes for sponges: a case study classifying African freshwater Spongillida

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Molecular biodiversity of Red Sea demosponges.

scientific article published on 7 January 2016

Molecular evidence for recent divergence of Lake Tanganyika endemic crabs (Decapoda: Platythelphusidae)

scientific article (publication date: August 2006)

Molecular evolution of rDNA in early diverging Metazoa: first comparative analysis and phylogenetic application of complete SSU rRNA secondary structures in Porifera

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny of Abyssocladia (Cladorhizidae: Poecilosclerida) and Phelloderma (Phellodermidae: Poecilosclerida) suggests a diversification of chelae microscleres in cladorhizid sponges

scientific article published on 17 August 2012

MtDNA diversity of the Indonesian giant barrel sponge Xestospongia testudinaria (Porifera: Haplosclerida) – implications from partial cytochrome oxidase 1 sequences

scientific article published in 2015

NUMTs in the sponge genome reveal conserved transposition mechanisms in metazoans

scientific article

Naturally Drug-Loaded Chitin: Isolation and Applications

scholarly article

Naturally Prefabricated Marine Biomaterials: Isolation and Applications of Flat Chitinous 3D Scaffolds from Ianthella labyrinthus (Demospongiae: Verongiida)

scholarly article

New antiplasmodial bromotyrosine derivatives from Suberea ianthelliformis Lendenfeld, 1888.

scientific article published on August 2012

New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

New family and genus for Dendrilla-like sponges with characters of Verongiida. Part I Redescription of Dendrilla lacunosa Hentschel 1912, diagnosis of the new family Ernstillidae and Ernstilla n. g.

scholarly article

New species and a molecular dating analysis of Vetulina Schmidt, 1879 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Sphaerocladina) reveal an ancient relict fauna with Tethys origin

article by Astrid Schuster et al published 14 March 2018 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Non-monophyly of most supraspecific taxa of calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) revealed by increased taxon sampling and partitioned Bayesian analysis of ribosomal DNA.

scientific article published on 30 April 2006

Nothing in (sponge) biology makes sense – except when based on holotypes

scientific article published in 2015

OrthoSelect: a protocol for selecting orthologous groups in phylogenomics

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Phylogenetic analyses under secondary structure-specific substitution models outperform traditional approaches: case studies with diploblast LSU.

scientific article

Phylogenetic analysis of Aphanius from the endorheic Kor River Basin in the Zagros Mountains, South-western Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae)

article

Phylogenomics revives traditional views on deep animal relationships

scientific article (publication date: 28 April 2009)

Phylogeography of the sponge Suberites diversicolor in Indonesia: insights into the evolution of marine lake populations

scientific article

Seven new deep-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Galápagos Islands – morphological descriptions and DNA barcodes

scientific article published in 2018

Soft sponges with tricky tree: On the phylogeny of dictyoceratid sponges

scientific article published in 2020

Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships between Atlanto-Mediterranean shallow-water and deep-sea coral associated Hexadella species (Porifera, Ianthellidae)

scientific article

Sponge community of the western Black Sea shallow water caves: diversity and spatial distribution

scientific article

Status and perspective of sponge chemosystematics

scientific article published on 3 July 2006

Staying well connected – Lithistid sponges on seamounts

scientific article published in 2015

Systematic relationships of five newly sequenced cervid species

scientific article

Systematics of ‘lithistid’ tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic—implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution

scientific article published on 02 April 2021

The HMA-LMA dichotomy revisited: an electron microscopical survey of 56 sponge species.

scientific article

The curious case of Gazella arabica

scientific article (publication date: April 2013)

The lysidyl aminoacyl transfer RNA synthetase intron, a new marker for demosponge phylogeographics – case study on Neopetrosia

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

The mitochondrial genomes of sponges provide evidence for multiple invasions by Repetitive Hairpin-forming Elements (RHE)

scientific article (publication date: 9 December 2009)

The origin and phylogeny of Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia, Unionoida): a synthesis of molecular and fossil data

scholarly article by Rafael Araújo Armero et al published 20 September 2016 in Zoologica Scripta

The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data

scientific article published in March 2012

The systematics of Raspailiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionina) re-analysed with a ribosomal marker

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 87 no. 6, December 2007

Towards a DNA taxonomy of Caribbean demosponges: a gene tree reconstructed from partial mitochondrial CO1 gene sequences supports previous rDNA phylogenies and provides a new perspective on the systematics of Demospongiae

scientific article published on 03 December 2007

Towards an 18S phylogeny of hexapods: accounting for group-specific character covariance in optimized mixed nucleotide/doublet models.

scientific article published on 25 October 2007

Zootaxa 20 years: Phylum Porifera

scientific article published in 2021