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Cost of filtration DATA for 5 demosponges - Data associated with: Ludeman, Reidenbach and Leys - JEB 2017 The energetic cost of filtration by demosponges and their behavioural response to ambient currents
Download2017-02-14
Abstract: Sponges (Porifera) are abundant in most marine and freshwater ecosystems and as suspension feeders they play a crucial role in filtering the water column. Their active pumping enables them to filter up to 900 times their body volume of water per hour, recycling nutrients and coupling a...
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Data associated with Grant et al (MEPS) "The Effect of Suspended Sediments on the Pumping Rates of Three Species of Glass Sponge In situ "
Data associated with Grant et al (MEPS) "The Effect of Suspended Sediments on the Pumping Rates of Three Species of Glass Sponge In situ "
Download2019-03-25
The largest known glass sponge reefs in Canada are within the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs Marine Protected Area (HSQCS-MPA). However, human activities outside the core MPA boundaries, such as trawling, can create plumes of suspended sediments capable of travelling...
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Data associated with Grant et al (MER) "Suspended sediment causes feeding current arrests in the glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus"
Data associated with Grant et al (MER) "Suspended sediment causes feeding current arrests in the glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus"
Download2018-02-09
Bottom-contact trawling generates large, moving clouds of suspended sediments that can alter the behaviour of organisms adjacent to trawl paths. While increased suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs) are known to cause glass sponges to arrest filtration in lab studies, the response of sponges...
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Ephydatia muelleri Trinity transcriptome
2017-11-08
ABSTRACT Background: The Wnt signaling pathway is uniquely metazoan and used in many processes during development, including the formation of polarity and body axes. In sponges, one of the earliest diverging animal groups, Wnt pathway genes have diverse expression patterns in different groups...
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Eunapius fragilis Trinity transcriptome
2017-11-08
ABSTRACT Background: The Wnt signaling pathway is uniquely metazoan and used in many processes during development, including the formation of polarity and body axes. In sponges, one of the earliest diverging animal groups, Wnt pathway genes have diverse expression patterns in different groups...
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Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges
Download2014-02-11
Background One of the hallmarks of multicellular organisms is the ability of their cells to trigger responses to the environment in a coordinated manner. In recent years primary cilia have been shown to be present as ‘antennae’ on almost all animal cells, and are involved in cell-to-cell...
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Fasta file of all Porifera Wnts
2017-11-29
Sally Leys, Pamela Windsor-Reid
ABSTRACT Background: The Wnt signaling pathway is uniquely metazoan and used in many processes during development, including the formation of polarity and body axes. In sponges, one of the earliest diverging animal groups, Wnt pathway genes have diverse expression patterns in different groups...
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Fasta file of All Wnt genes
2017-01-01
Sally Leys, Pamela Windsor-Reid
ABSTRACT Background: The Wnt signaling pathway is uniquely metazoan and used in many processes during development, including the formation of polarity and body axes. In sponges, one of the earliest diverging animal groups, Wnt pathway genes have diverse expression patterns in different groups...
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Geodia barretti - Energy budget data sheet for Limnology and Oceanography
2017-05-26
Geodia barretti is a massive nearly spherical sponge that forms dense assemblages on the continental shelf of the North Altantic and the Norwegian Sea. We studied the metabolism of individual sponges collected using a remotely operated vehicle and maintained in large tanks with high volumes of...
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Nexus file of all Porifera Wnts
2017-11-29
Sally Leys, Pamela Windsor-Reid
ABSTRACT Background: The Wnt signaling pathway is uniquely metazoan and used in many processes during development, including the formation of polarity and body axes. In sponges, one of the earliest diverging animal groups, Wnt pathway genes have diverse expression patterns in different groups...