A broad‐taxa approach as an important concept in ecotoxicological studies and pollution monitoring

A Rosner, L Ballarin, S Barnay‐Verdier… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic invertebrates play a pivotal role in (eco) toxicological assessments because they
offer ethical, cost‐effective and repeatable testing options. Additionally, their significance in …

Physiology and evolution of voltage-gated calcium channels in early diverging animal phyla: Cnidaria, Placozoa, Porifera and Ctenophora

A Senatore, H Raiss, P Le - Frontiers in physiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Voltage-gated calcium (Cav) channels serve dual roles in the cell, where they can both
depolarize the membrane potential for electrical excitability, and activate transient …

Novel cell types, neurosecretory cells, and body plan of the early-diverging metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens

CL Smith, F Varoqueaux, M Kittelmann, RN Azzam… - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
Background Trichoplax adhaerens is the best-known member of the phylum Placozoa, one
of the earliest-diverging metazoan phyla. It is a small disk-shaped animal that glides on …

The analysis of eight transcriptomes from all poriferan classes reveals surprising genetic complexity in sponges

A Riesgo, N Farrar, PJ Windsor… - … biology and evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Transcriptional activity of the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta Holobiont: molecular evidence for metabolic interchange

CL Fiore, M Labrie, JK Jarett, MP Lesser - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Compared to our understanding of the taxonomic composition of the symbiotic microbes in
marine sponges, the functional diversity of these symbionts is largely unknown. Furthermore …

Characterization of a thaumarchaeal symbiont that drives incomplete nitrification in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta

FU Moeller, NS Webster, CW Herbold… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Marine sponges represent one of the few eukaryotic groups that frequently harbour
symbiotic members of the Thaumarchaeota, which are important chemoautotrophic …

Emerging sponge models of animal-microbe symbioses

L Pita, S Fraune, U Hentschel - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Sponges have a significant impact on marine benthic communities, they are of
biotechnological interest owing to their production of bioactive natural compounds, and they …

Draft Genomes Shed Light on the Dual Bacterial Symbiosis that Dominates the Microbiome of the Coral Reef Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica

MEA Gauthier, JR Watson, SM Degnan - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Amphimedon queenslandica is a coral reef demosponge that houses a low complexity and
low abundance microbiota dominated by a proteobacterial duo for which draft genomes are …

De Novo Assembly and Characterization of Four Anthozoan (Phylum Cnidaria) Transcriptomes

SA Kitchen, CM Crowder, AZ Poole… - G3: Genes, genomes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Many nonmodel species exemplify important biological questions but lack the sequence
resources required to study the genes and genomic regions underlying traits of interest …

Landscape of histone modifications in a sponge reveals the origin of animal cis-regulatory complexity

F Gaiti, K Jindrich, SL Fernandez-Valverde, KE Roper… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Combinatorial patterns of histone modifications regulate developmental and cell type-
specific gene expression and underpin animal complexity, but it is unclear when this …