[HTML][HTML] Global diversity of sponges (Porifera)

RWM Van Soest, N Boury-Esnault, J Vacelet… - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
With the completion of a single unified classification, the Systema Porifera (SP) and
subsequent development of an online species database, the World Porifera Database …

Sponge systematics facing new challenges

P Cárdenas, T Perez, N Boury-Esnault - Advances in marine biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Systematics is nowadays facing new challenges with the introduction of new concepts and
new techniques. Compared to most other phyla, phylogenetic relationships among sponges …

A higher level classification of all living organisms

MA Ruggiero, DP Gordon, TM Orrell, N Bailly… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We present a consensus classification of life to embrace the more than 1.6 million species
already provided by more than 3,000 taxonomists' expert opinions in a unified and coherent …

The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals

DH Erwin, M Laflamme, SM Tweedt, EA Sperling… - science, 2011 - science.org
Diverse bilaterian clades emerged apparently within a few million years during the early
Cambrian, and various environmental, developmental, and ecological causes have been …

Error, signal, and the placement of Ctenophora sister to all other animals

NV Whelan, KM Kocot, LL Moroz… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Elucidating relationships among early animal lineages has been difficult, and recent
phylogenomic analyses place Ctenophora sister to all other extant animals, contrary to the …

Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera)

C Morrow, P Cárdenas - Frontiers in zoology, 2015 - Springer
Background Demospongiae is the largest sponge class including 81% of all living sponges
with nearly 7,000 species worldwide. Systema Porifera (2002) was the result of a large …

Animal mitochondrial DNA as we do not know it: mt-genome organization and evolution in nonbilaterian lineages

DV Lavrov, W Pett - Genome biology and evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is commonly described as a small, circular molecule
that is conserved in size, gene content, and organization. Data collected in the last decade …

[图书][B] Biogeographic atlas of the Southern Ocean

C De Broyer, P Koubbi, H Griffiths, SA Grant - 2014 - core.ac.uk
The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

An overview on marine sponge-symbiotic bacteria as unexhausted sources for natural product discovery

CM Brinkmann, A Marker, DI Kurtböke - Diversity, 2017 - mdpi.com
Microbial symbiotic communities of marine macro-organisms carry functional metabolic
profiles different to the ones found terrestrially and within surrounding marine environments …

Early sponge evolution: a review and phylogenetic framework

JP Botting, LA Muir - Palaeoworld, 2018 - Elsevier
Sponges are one of the critical groups in understanding the early evolution of animals.
Traditional views of these relationships are currently being challenged by molecular data …