Reconciling the fossil record with molecular phylogenies to enhance the understanding of
animal evolution is a challenging task, especially for taxa with a mostly poor fossil record …

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 …

Marine reserves are becoming progressively more important as anthropogenic impacts
continue to increase, but we have little baseline information for most marine environments …

Bioassay-guided fractionation of extracts from temperate Australian collections of the marine
sponge Pseudoceratina purpurea resulted in the isolation and characterisation of two new …

Relating to recent environmental changes, bioerosion rates of calcium carbonate materials
appear to be increasing worldwide, often driven by sponges that cause bioerosion and are …

The calcareous sponges collected during Indonesian-Dutch research projects, incorporated
in the collections of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (formerly the Rijksmuseum van …

Sponges are among the most species‐rich and ecologically important taxa on coral reefs,
yet documenting their diversity is difficult due to the simplicity and plasticity of their …

Three new plakortides, 7, 8-dihydroplakortide E (1), 2, and 10, along with known natural
products 3, 4, spongosoritin A (5), 6–8, and plakortide P (9), were isolated from Brazilian …

The study presents Cladorhizidae collected during Ifremer cruises in the Atlantic Ocean from
1981 to 2004. Fifteen species are described from the genera Abyssocladia, Asbestopluma …

An overview is proposed of the hexactinellid sponge fauna of the Mediterranean Sea,
including the description of a new species of Sympagella, S. delauzei sp. nov., collected by …