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A sponge is a simple organism that is easy to describe. ... Sponges are an ancient and highly successful group of animals. In the Palaeozoic they are believed to have comprised more than half the biomass in marine reefs. They have been living in the waters of the world for more than 600 million years, and can now be found in...
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www.earthlife.net/inverts/porifera.html
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Marine sponge. Marine sponge. Information about Marine sponge in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Any saclike simple invertebrate of the phylum Porifera, usually marine. A sponge has a hollow body, its cavity lined by cells bearing flagellae, whose whiplike movements keep water...
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encyclopedia.farlex.com/Marine+sponge
encyclopedia.farlex.com/Marine+sponge
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A sponge has differentiated cells and functionally distinct layers. The ameobocytes secrete spicules which stack up together to make the sponge. The choanocytes are composed of a flagellum and a collar (collar cells).
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www.cyhaus.com/marine/sponges.htm
www.cyhaus.com/marine/sponges.htm
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•Award an annual scholarship for marine study ... MISSION STATEMENT; Oceanic Research Group, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the conservation of the world's oceans and marine life through education.
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www.oceanicresearch.org/sponges.html
www.oceanicresearch.org/sponges.html
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Now Tel Aviv University zoologists are diving deep into the sea to collect unique chemicals — drugs of the future — to beat unnecessary death by fungal infection. And their secret weapon is the common marine sponge.
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090226110743.htm
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There are more than 7,000 described species of sponges alive today in both fresh and marine waters and many more that remain to be described and named by scientists. Different groups of sponges make their spicules that form the sponge's skeleton out of different materials.
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gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/marine/sponge/index_e.php
gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/marine/sponge/index_e.php
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The simple marine sponge is inspiring cutting-edge research in the design of new materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A report about these exciting new results involving the use of gold nanoparticles is the cover story of the current issue of the scientific journal, Advanced Materials.
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www.physorg.com/news4226.html
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Sponges are the simplest extant animals but nevertheless possess self-nonself recognition that rivals the specificity of the vertebrate MHC. We have used dissociated cell assays and grafting techniques to study tissue acceptance and rejection in the marine sponge Microciona prolifera.
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www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/full/179/9/5927
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Cyclosporin A Suspends Transplantation Reactions in the Marine Sponge Microciona prolifera1 ... * Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075; Wheelock College, Boston, MA 02215; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland;
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www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/abstract/179/9/5927
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