Sponges have a remarkable capacity to rapidly regenerate in response to wound infliction.
In addition, sponges rapidly renew their filter systems (choanocytes) to maintain a healthy …

Calcareous sponges (Phylum Porifera, Class Calcarea) are known to be taxonomically
difficult. Previous molecular studies have revealed many discrepancies between classically …

Spongillida (Porifera) colonized temporary freshwater bodies at the global level. To enhance
colonization, survival, long-term persistence, and dispersal, most continental sponges …

Chemical diversity represents a measure of selective pressures acting on genotypic
variability. In order to understand patterns of chemical ecology and biodiversity in the …

Deep-sea sponge grounds are underexplored ecosystems that provide numerous goods
and services to the functioning of the deep-sea. This study assessed the prokaryotic diversity …

Sponge assemblages associated with coralligenous outcrops were studied with the aim of
describing and comparing their composition, morphological features and distribution at …

Marine demosponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) are recognized as first metazoans which
have developed over millions of years of evolution effective survival strategies based on …

Monitoring has become a critical component of managing marine environments world-wide
in the face of local and global anthropogenic impacts. Typically the focus of most monitoring …

Abstract Differently from the North Atlantic Ocean, only few examples of sponge grounds are
known from the Mediterranean Sea, mainly thriving in the deep sea. In this study, a novel …

Sponges are complex holobionts in which the structure of the microbiome has seldom been
characterized above the host species level. The hypothesis tested in this study is that the …