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| Taxonomy |
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Straight-Chain Acetylenes as Chemotaxonomic Markers of the Marine Haplosclerida |
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Relationships Within and Between the Orders of Demospongiae that Lack a Mineral Skeleton |
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Unreliability of Demosponge Skeletal Characters: The Example of Halichondria panicea |
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41 | (14) |
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Spicule Form and Morphogenesis in the Calcareous Sponge Leuconia fistulosa (Johnston) |
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55 | (14) |
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Biogeographic Scenarios of Marine Demospongiae |
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69 | (14) |
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A Biogeographic and Evolutionary Survey of the Genus Tethya (Porifera, Demospongiae) |
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83 | (12) |
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Toward a Panbiogeography of the Seas: Sponge Phylogenies and General Tracks |
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95 | (14) |
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A Two-Sponge Associations from Komun Island, Korea |
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109 | (12) |
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| Molecular Biology and Evolution |
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Sponges as Biomarkers of the Aquatic Environment: Application of Molecular Probes |
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121 | (12) |
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Molecular Biological and Paleontological Evidence that Eumetazoa, Including Porifera (Sponges), are of Monophyletic Origin |
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133 | (24) |
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Molecular Evidence for Early Evolution of Metazoa |
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157 | (10) |
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| Developmental Biology, Physiology, and Ecology |
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Larval Flagellated Cells Transform to Choanocytes in Demosponge Metamorphosis |
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167 | (12) |
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The Ultrastructure of Spermatozoa and Its Structural Change in the Choanocytes of Sycon calcaravis Hozawa |
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179 | (14) |
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The Involvement of Two Carrier Cells in Fertilization and the Ultrastructure of the Spermiocyst in Sycon calcaravis |
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193 | (10) |
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Exogenous Cyclic AMP (cAMP) and Dibutyryl-Cyclic AMP (DB-cAMP) Induce in vitro Morphological Variations in the Choanocytes of Clathrina cerebrum (Porifera, Calcarea) |
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203 | (12) |
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Fusion and Cytoplasmic Streaming are Characteristics of at Least Two Hexactinellids: Examination of Cultured Tissue from Aphrocallistes vastus |
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215 | (12) |
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Factors Influencing Tissue Reconstitution by Dissociated Sponge Cells |
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227 | (8) |
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Three-Dimensional Architecture of the Canal System of Some Hadromerids (Porifera, Demospongiae) |
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235 | (14) |
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An Ultrastructural Study of the Contractile Filament in the Pinacocyte of a Freshwater Sponge |
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249 | (10) |
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Crustacean Infauna of the Demosponge Halichondria okadai (Kadota) with Reference to the Life Cycle of Gnathia sp. (Isopoda: Gnathiidea) |
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259 | (12) |
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| Freshwater Sponge Biology |
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Taxonomy and Distribution of Brazilian Spongillites |
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271 | (8) |
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Status of Freshwater Sponge Study in China |
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279 | (6) |
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A Study of the Freshwater Sponges of the Lakes in Yunnan |
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285 | (10) |
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A Scanning Electron Microscopy Study on Spicules, Gemmule Coats, and Micropyles of Japanese Freshwater Sponges |
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295 | (16) |
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Radiosensitivity of Freshwater Sponge Gemmules |
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311 | (10) |
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Endogenous Circanual Rhythm. Like a Biological Clock, Controls Gemmule Germination in Spongilla alba |
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321 | (14) |
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Feasibility Studies of the Space Experiment on the Developement of the Freshwater Sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis |
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335 | (8) |
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Freshwater Sponge Culture in the Aquarium |
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343 | (10) |
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| Chemistry |
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353 | (74) |
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The Whys and Whats of Sponge Chemistry: Why Chemists Extract Sponges and What Problems Does This Cause? |
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353 | (12) |
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Manzamine-Related Alkaloids from Okinawan Marine Sponges |
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Likely Microbial Participation in the Production of Bioactive Marine Sponge Chemical Constituents |
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379 | (12) |
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Andrimid, an Antimicrobial Substance in the Marine Sponge Hyatella, Produced by an Associated Vibrio Bacterium |
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391 | (8) |
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Antifouling and Metamorphosis-Promoting Compounds from the Marine Sponges Pseudoceratina purpurea and Agelas mauritiana |
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399 | (14) |
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Antifouling Compounds against Barnacle (Balanus amphitrite) Larvae from the Marine Sponge Acanthella cavernosa |
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413 | (14) |
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| Epilogue The Sponge in the History of Japanese Biology |
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427 | (18) |
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| Miscellaneous |
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| List of Participants |
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445 | (6) |
| Contributor Index |
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451 | (2) |
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