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2019-03-01
Leys SP,, Mah JL,, McGill PR,, Hamonic L, De Leo F,, Kahn AS
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 behavior and present new observations on sponge activity in situ. We also...
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2018-05-01
Rennard E,, Leys SP,, Wörheide G,, Borchiellini C
Sponges are important but often-neglected organisms. The absence of classical animal traits (nerves, digestive tract, and muscles) makes sponges challenging for non-specialists to work with and has delayed getting high quality genomic data compared to other invertebrates. Yet analyses of sponge...