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  • noun zoology Any sponge of the class Demospongiae

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Examples

  • Great Barrier Reef demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica, 140

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • The draft genome sequence of one, the Great Barrier Reef demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica, reveals genetic mechanisms that allowed individual cells to work together, from those that help them adhere to one another to those that suppress individual cells that multiply at the expense of the collective.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • In the aneural demosponge, A. queenslandica, the three Lhx genes are expressed widely during development, including in cells that are associated with the larval photosensory ring.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Only three subfamilies are represented in the haplosclerid demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • We identified Lhx genes in two cnidarians and a placozoan and report the expression of Lhx genes during embryonic development in Nematostella and the demosponge Amphimedon.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Thus a matrix was built with 117 cnidarian and 94 bilaterian Antp homeodomain sequences and was completed by 5 sequences from the placozoan, the 8 available sequences from the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Larroux C, Fahey B, Liubicich D, Hinman VF, Gauthier M, et al. (2006) Developmental expression of transcription factor genes in a demosponge: insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pascal Lapébie et al. 2009

  • The newly sequenced genomes of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis, the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica, and the cnidarians

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue J.-Y. Exposito 2008

  • (demosponge) genome and two Wnts from our EST collection from the homoscleromorph

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pascal Lapébie et al. 2009

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