"Porifera" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The phylum of sponges which are sessile, suspension-feeding, multicellular animals that utilize flagellated cells called choanocytes to circulate water. Most are hermaphroditic. They are probably an early evolutionary side branch that gave rise to no other group of animals. Except for about 150 freshwater species, sponges are marine animals. They are a source of ALKALOIDS; STEROLS; and other complex molecules useful in medicine and biological research.
| Descriptor ID |
D011161
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.802
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| Concept/Terms |
Porifera- Porifera
- Poriferas
- Sponge (Zoology)
- Sponges (Zoology)
- Sponges
- Sponge
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Porifera" by people in Profiles.
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Lifestyle evolution in cyanobacterial symbionts of sponges. mBio. 2015 Jun 02; 6(3):e00391-15.
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Minimum entropy decomposition: unsupervised oligotyping for sensitive partitioning of high-throughput marker gene sequences. ISME J. 2015 Mar 17; 9(4):968-79.
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Spatiotemporal transcriptomics reveals the evolutionary history of the endoderm germ layer. Nature. 2015 Mar 12; 519(7542):219-22.
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Protein evolution by molecular tinkering: diversification of the nuclear receptor superfamily from a ligand-dependent ancestor. PLoS Biol. 2010 Oct 05; 8(10).