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Data associated with Matveev et al: Sense Induced Flow - Active use of ambient flow by a deep-sea glass sponge
Download2021-08-10
Matveev, E, Leys SP, Yahel G, Kahn AS, Aragones P, Ludeman D, Eerkes-Medrano D
How flow moves through porous structures like sponges is a fluid dynamic problem that has challenged physical and biological scientists. Sponges possess biological pump cells that are known to drive water flow, and yet their porous bodies have often been proposed to take advantage of ambient...
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Data files associated with The Sponge Pump: The Role of Current Induced Flow in the Design of the Sponge Body Plan
Download2011-09-19
Sponges are suspension feeders that use flagellated collar-cells (choanocytes) to actively filter a volume of water equivalent to many times their body volume each hour. Flow through sponges is thought to be enhanced by ambient current, which induces a pressure gradient across the sponge wall,...
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Description and distribution of Desmacella hyalina sp. nov. (Porifera, Desmacellidae), a new cryptic demosponge in glass sponge reefs from the western coast of Canada
Download2020-01-01
Law LK, Reiswig HM, Ott BS, McDaniel N, Guillas KC, Kahn AS, Dinn C, Leys SP
Glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) form globally unique reefs that support deep-sea biodiversity in the Canadian northeast Pacific. In February 2017, the largest known reefs were protected within the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs Marine Protected Area...
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2023-12-10
Harrison DE, Diluvio MS, Matveev E, Corrêa PVF, De Leo FC, Leys SP
Supplementary files associated with the Journal Article
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2007-01-01
Leys SP, Mackie GO, Reiswig HM
As the most ancient extant metazoans, glass sponges (Hexactinellida) have attracted recent attention in the areas of molecular evolution and the evolution of conduction systems but they are also interesting because of their unique histology: the greater part of their soft tissue consists of a...