Sponges lack a signaling pathway that responds to low intracellular oxygen levels in more complex animals. Do they use a different mechanism for this purpose or did their earliest ancestors evolve at ...
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Buried deep in China, this weird ancient sponge closes a 160-million-year gap in evolution
The find, led by Shuhai Xiao of Virginia Tech, suggests that the earliest sponges lacked mineral skeletons, which may explain why older fossils have remained elusive. Sponges are considered among the ...
When the first sponge genomes were sequenced in the early 2000s, researchers were surprised to find that sponges not only have roughly as many genes as humans and other complex creatures but also have ...
Sponges are filter feeders that live on particulate matter -- but they can also ingest microscopic fragments of plastics and other pollutants of anthropogenic origin. They can therefore serve as ...
Sponges lack a signaling pathway that responds to low intracellular oxygen levels in more complex animals. Do they use a different mechanism for this purpose or did their earliest ancestors evolve at ...
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