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2018-01-01
Windsor Reid, Pamela J., Matveev, Eugueni, McClymont, Alexandra, Posfai, Dora, Hill, April L., Leys, Sally P.
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 including...
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Aphrocallistes vastus Trinity transcriptome
2014-02-11
Sponges (Porifera) are among the earliest evolving metazoans. Their filter-feeding body plan based on choanocyte chambers organized into a complex aquiferous system is so unique among metazoans that it either reflects an early divergence from other animals prior to the evolution of features such...
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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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2018-01-01
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This image is part of a series illustrating proper laboratory technique when preparing a wetmount. This image demonstrates adding a drop of liquid to the microscope slide with a pastuer pipette. This technique is taught in Introduction to Cell Biology: Biology 107 and Molecular Genetics and...
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Supplementary Files for: Sponge behaviour and the chemical basis of responses: a post-genomic view
Download2019-05-25
Sponges perceive and respond to a range of stimuli. How they do this is still difficult to pin down despite now having transcriptomes and genomes of an array of species. Here we evaluate the current understanding of sponge behaviour and present new observations on sponge activity in situ. We also...
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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...
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2018-01-01
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This image is part of a series displaying key features of a Compound Microscope. This image is displays the back view of a compound microscope. This equipment is used in Introduction to Cell Biology: Biology 107 and Molecular Genetics and Heredity: Biology 207. This image was created as part of...
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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