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A 16S rRNA gene sequencing and analysis protocol for the Illumina MiniSeq platform.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2021

A chemical view of the most ancient metazoa – biomarker chemotaxonomy of hexactinellid sponges

article

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

scientific article

A horizontal gene transfer supported the evolution of an early metazoan biomineralization strategy

scientific article

A hypercalcified sponge with soft relatives: Vaceletia is a keratose demosponge

scientific article published in February 2008

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 species of crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster benziei sp. nov. (Valvatida: Acanthasteridae), from the Red Sea ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 November 2022

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 calcareous sponge genus Leuclathrina (Calcarea: Calcinea: Clathrinida) from the Maldives

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

A new sponge genus from the Chengjiang biota with an intriguing combination of skeletal characters

scientific article published in 2023

A new thecideid genus and species (Brachiopoda, Recent) from submarine caves of Osprey Reef (Queensland Plateau, Coral Sea, Australia)

scholarly article by Gert Wörheide published in 2003

A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell

scientific article published on 22 November 2006

A revised phylogeny of Antilopini (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) using combined mitochondrial and nuclear genes

scientific article (publication date: May 2013)

A short LSU rRNA fragment as a standard marker for integrative taxonomy in calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

A taxogenomics approach uncovers a new genus in the phylum Placozoa

A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2008)

ALG11--a new variable DNA marker for sponge phylogeny: comparison of phylogenetic performances with the 18S rDNA and the COI gene

scientific article published on 25 February 2012

Advancing Genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2007

An evolutionary fast-track to biocalcification

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

Anaerobic metabolism of Foraminifera thriving below the seafloor

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

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

scientific article published on 03 December 2007

Analysis of the proteinaceous components of the organic matrix of calcitic sclerites from the soft coral Sinularia sp

scientific article

Anion inhibition studies of an α-carbonic anhydrase from the living fossil Astrosclera willeyana.

scientific article published on 23 December 2011

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

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

Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on noncoral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs

scholarly article by RACHEL PRZESLAWSKI et al published December 2008 in Global Change Biology

Biodegradation of textile waste by marine bacterial communities enhanced by light

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Biodiversity, molecular ecology and phylogeography of marine sponges: patterns, implications and outlooks ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2005

Bottomless barrel-sponge species in the Indo-Pacific?

scientific article

British Indian Ocean Territory (the Chagos Archipelago): Setting, Connections and the Marine Protected Area

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

Calcite formation in soft coral sclerites is determined by a single reactive extracellular protein

scientific article

Carbonic Anhydrases: An Ancient Tool in Calcareous Sponge Biomineralization

publication published on 07 April 2021

Cell death and renewal during prey capture and digestion in the carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma hypogea (Porifera: Poecilosclerida)

scientific article published on 16 August 2012

Challenges for biodiversity research in Europe

Characterization of the proteinaceous skeletal organic matrix from the precious coral Corallium konojoi.

scientific article published on 3 October 2014

Cloning, characterization and sulfonamide inhibition studies of an α-carbonic anhydrase from the living fossil sponge Astrosclera willeyana

scientific article

Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Comparative mitogenomics, phylogeny and evolutionary history of Leptogorgia (Gorgoniidae).

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

Correction: Analysis of the Proteinaceous Components of the Organic Matrix of Calcitic Sclerites from the Soft Coral Sinularia sp.

scientific article

Correction: Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Correction: Diversity in a Cold Hot-Spot: DNA-Barcoding Reveals Patterns of Evolution among Antarctic Demosponges (Class Demospongiae, Phylum Porifera).

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Correction: Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Correlation between Hox code and vertebral morphology in archosaurs

scientific article

Corrigendum to: Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)

scholarly article published in Invertebrate Systematics

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

scientific article

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

scientific article

Deep genetic divergences among Indo-Pacific populations of the coral reef sponge Leucetta chagosensis (Leucettidae): founder effects, vicariance, or both?

scientific article (publication date: 26 January 2008)

Deep metazoan phylogeny: when different genes tell different stories.

scientific article

Deep phylogeny and evolution of sponges (phylum Porifera).

scientific article published on January 2012

Development of microsatellite loci in the common reef starfish Linckia laevigata and Linckia multifora

article

Developmental expression of transcription factor genes in a demosponge: insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity.

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

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Diversity in a Cold Hot-Spot: DNA-Barcoding Reveals Patterns of Evolution among Antarctic Demosponges (Class Demospongiae, Phylum Porifera)

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Diversity of two widespread Indo-Pacific demosponge species revisited

Dynamic expression of ancient and novel molluscan shell genes during ecological transitions

scientific article

Erratum: A chemical view of the most ancient metazoa - biomarker chemotaxonomy of hexactinellid sponges

scholarly article published in The Science of Nature

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

First evidence of miniature transposable elements in sponges (Porifera)

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First report on chitinous holdfast in sponges (Porifera) ⬇️

scientific article

First report on chitinous holdfast in sponges (Porifera) - Electronic Supplementary Materials ⬇️

scholarly article

Fossil descriptions: Private collections of fossils are a plus

scientific article

Genetic structure of the crown-of-thorns seastar in the Pacific Ocean, with focus on Guam

scientific article published on 5 May 2016

Genome Evolution in Bacteria Isolated from Million-Year-Old Subseafloor Sediment

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

scientific article

High germline mutation rates, but not extreme population outbreaks, influence genetic diversity in a keystone coral predator

scientific article published on 12 February 2024

Historical biogeography and mitogenomics of two endemic Mediterranean gorgonians (Holaxonia, Plexauridae)

scholarly article by Angelo Poliseno et al published 18 January 2017 in Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Homoplasious colony morphology and mito-nuclear phylogenetic discordance among Eastern Pacific octocorals

scientific article published on 5 March 2016

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

scientific article

How genomics can help biodiversity conservation

Identification and first insights into the structure and biosynthesis of chitin from the freshwater sponge Spongilla lacustris

scientific article

Identification and first insights into the structure and biosynthesis of chitin from the freshwater sponge Spongilla lacustris - Supplementary data

scholarly article

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

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Improved Modeling of Compositional Heterogeneity Supports Sponges as Sister to All Other Animals

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Improved phylogenomic taxon sampling noticeably affects nonbilaterian relationships

scientific article

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians.

scientific article

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

Intragenomic variation of the rDNA internal transcribed spacers in sponges (Phylum Porifera): implications for phylogenetic studies

scientific article published in December 2004

Keratose sponge MuseOMICS: setting reference points in dictyoceratid demosponge phylogeny ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 October 2022

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

scientific article

Low variation in partial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial sequences in the coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana across the Indo-Pacific

scientific article published on 10 November 2005

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

scientific article

Manzacidin D: An unprecedented secondary metabolite from the “living fossil” sponge Astrosclera willeyana

Microbial diversity in the coralline sponge Vaceletia crypta

scientific article

Mid-chain branched alkanoic acids from “living fossil” demosponges: a link to ancient sedimentary lipids?

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Mineralization of the metre-long biosilica structures of glass sponges is templated on hydroxylated collagen

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

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

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Mitochondrial DNA of Clathrina clathrus (Calcarea, Calcinea): six linear chromosomes, fragmented rRNAs, tRNA editing, and a novel genetic code.

scientific article

Mitochondrial RNA processing in absence of tRNA punctuations in octocorals

scientific article

Mitochondrial diversity of early-branching metazoa is revealed by the complete mt genome of a haplosclerid demosponge

scientific article published on 19 October 2006

Modified parallel strategies for preparation of heteroduplex plasmids for in vitro mismatch repair assays

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

Molecular biodiversity of Red Sea demosponges.

scientific article published on 7 January 2016

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 paleobiology of early-branching animals: integrating DNA and fossils elucidates the evolutionary history of hexactinellid sponges

Molecular phylogenetic evaluation of classification and scenarios of character evolution in calcareous sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea).

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

Molecular phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): increased taxon sampling and inclusion of the mitochondrial protein-coding gene, cytochrome oxidase subunit I

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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

Nano-cluster composite structure of calcitic sponge spicules--a case study of basic characteristics of biominerals

scientific article published in January 2006

Never Ending Analysis of a Century Old Evolutionary Debate: “Unringing” the Urmetazoon Bell

article published in 2016

New Non-Bilaterian Transcriptomes Provide Novel Insights into the Evolution of Coral Skeletomes

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae

scientific article published in July 2009

New insights into the vertebral Hox code of archosaurs

scientific article published on September 2015

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

New species of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea) from cryptic habitats of the southern Great Barrier Reef (Heron Island and Wistari Reef, Capricorn-Bunker Group, Australia)

scientific article published in January 2003

Non-lithistid fossil demospongiae? Origins of their palaeobiodiversity and highlights in history of preservation

scholarly article

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

Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution—Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

scientific article

OrthoSelect: a protocol for selecting orthologous groups in phylogenomics

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

OrthoSelect: a web server for selecting orthologous gene alignments from EST sequences

scientific article

Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine aragonite of coralline sponges

scientific article published in May 2000

Persistent Gaps of Knowledge for Naming and Distinguishing Multiple Species of Crown-of-Thorns-Seastar in the Acanthaster planci Species Complex

scientific article

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

scientific article

Phylogenetic diversity and community structure of the symbionts associated with the coralline sponge Astrosclera willeyana of the Great Barrier Reef

scientific article

Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Phylogenomics revives traditional views on deep animal relationships

scientific article (publication date: 28 April 2009)

Phylogeny and evolution of glass sponges (porifera, hexactinellida).

scientific article published in June 2008

Phylogeny of Tetillidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Spirophorida) based on three molecular markers

scientific article

Phylogeography of the crown-of-thorns starfish in the Indian Ocean.

scientific article

Phylogeography of western Pacific Leucetta 'chagosensis' (Porifera: Calcarea) from ribosomal DNA sequences: implications for population history and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia).

scientific article

Poriferan survivin exhibits a conserved regulatory role in the interconnected pathways of cell cycle and apoptosis

scientific article (publication date: February 2011)

RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges: actin knockdown in Tethya wilhelma and Ephydatia muelleri by ingested dsRNA expressing bacteria

scientific article

Reply to Halanych et al.: Ctenophore misplacement is corroborated by independent datasets

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Resolving difficult phylogenetic questions: why more sequences are not enough

scientific article published in March 2011

Return of the ghosts of dispersal past: historical spread and contemporary gene flow in the blue sea star Linckia laevigata

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Revision of the brachiopod genus Amphithyris (Rhynchonelliformea: Platidiidae) with descriptions of two new species

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2014)

Rossellid glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from New Zealand waters, with description of one new genus and six new species

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2018

Short-Term Exposure to High-Temperature Water Causes a Shift in the Microbiome of the Common Aquarium Sponge Lendenfeldia chondrodes

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Similar Ratios of Introns to Intergenic Sequence across Animal Genomes

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Slow mitochondrial DNA sequence evolution in the Anthozoa (Cnidaria).

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2020

Spicule formation in calcareous sponges: Coordinated expression of biomineralization genes and spicule-type specific genes

scientific article

Sponge paleogenomics reveals an ancient role for carbonic anhydrase in skeletogenesis.

scientific article

Sponges as bioindicators for microparticulate pollutants?

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Sponges: New Views of Old Animals ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2005

Staying well connected – Lithistid sponges on seamounts

scientific article published in 2015

Structure and composition of calcareous sponge spicules: a review and comparison to structurally related biominerals.

scientific article published on 3 February 2007

Symbiophagy and biomineralization in the "living fossil" Astrosclera willeyana

scientific article

Systematic relationships of five newly sequenced cervid species

scientific article

Systematics and spicule evolution in dictyonal sponges (Hexactinellida: Sceptrulophora) with description of two new species

scholarly 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 Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): developing community resources to study diverse invertebrate genomes

scientific article

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

scientific article

The Magellania venosa Biomineralizing Proteome: A Window into Brachiopod Shell Evolution

scientific article

The Role of Homology and Orthology in the Phylogenomic Analysis of Metazoan Gene Content

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

The Skeleton Forming Proteome of an Early Branching Metazoan: A Molecular Survey of the Biomineralization Components Employed by the Coralline Sponge Vaceletia Sp

scientific article

The crown-of-thorns seastar species complex: knowledge on the biology and ecology of five corallivorous Acanthaster species

scientific article published on 14 December 2023

The curious case of Gazella arabica

scientific article (publication date: April 2013)

The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics

scientific article published in March 2022

The fatty acids of calcareous sponges (Calcarea, Porifera)

scientific article published on 27 June 2006

The last common ancestor of animals lacked the HIF pathway and respired in low-oxygen environments

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

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

scientific article published in March 2012

The reef cave dwelling ultraconservative coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana Lister 1900 from the Indo-Pacific ⬇️

scientific article published in December 1998

The sponge genetree server providing a phylogenetic backbone for poriferan evolutionary studies ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 November 2008

The sterols of calcareous sponges (Calcarea, Porifera).

scientific article published on 10 July 2008

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

Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Two new tretodictyids (Hexactinellida: Hexactinosida: Tretodictyidae) from the coasts of North America ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 March 2008

Understanding Animal Evolution: The Added Value of Sponge Transcriptomics and Genomics: The disconnect between gene content and body plan evolution

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Unsuspected diversity of Niphargus amphipods in the chemoautotrophic cave ecosystem of Frasassi, central Italy

scientific article

Volcanic ash supports a diverse bacterial community in a marine mesocosm

scientific article

Zootaxa 20 years: Phylum Porifera

scientific article published in 2021

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