Antarctica

Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Patterns in Antarctic Continental Shelf Sponges

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REFERENCE Steinert, Georg; Wemheuer, Bernd; Janussen, Dorte; Erpenbeck, Dirk; Daniel, Rolf; Simon, Meinhard; Brinkhoff, Thorsten; Schupp, Peter J (2020). Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00297. ABSTRACT Marine sponges (Phylum Porifera) are globally distributed within marine and freshwater ecosystems. In addition, sponges … Read More

Insights into the reproduction of some Antarctic dendroceratid, poecilosclerid, and haplosclerid demosponges

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REFERENCE Koutsouveli, Vasiliki; Taboada, Sergi; Moles, Juan; Cristobo, Javier; Ríos, Pilar; Bertran, Andrea; Solà, Joan; Avila, Conxita, Riesgo, Ana (2018). Plos ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192267. ABSTRACT Sponges are a dominant element of the Antarctic benthic communities, posing both high species richness and … Read More