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Advances in Sponge Science : Phylogeny, Systematics, Ecology /

Advances in Marine Biology has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 -- over 45 years of outstanding coverage! The series is well-known for both its excellence of reviews and editing. Now edited by Michael Lesser, with an internationally renowned...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Becerro, Mikel A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier Academic Press, 2012.
Colección:Advances in marine biology ; v. 61.
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  • Advances in Sponge Science: Phylogeny, Systematics, Ecology; Copyright; Contributors To Volume 61; Contents; Preface; Series Contents For Last Fifteen Years; Chapter 1: Deep Phylogeny and Evolution of Sponges (Phylum Porifera); 1. Introduction; 2. Higher-Level Non-bilaterian Relationships; 2.1. The status of phylum Porifera: Monophyletic or paraphyletic?; 2.2. Why is the phylogenetic status of sponges important for understanding early animal evolution?; 3. Mitochondrial DNA in Sponge Phylogenetics; 3.1. The mitochondrial genomes of sponges; 3.2. Inferring sponge phylogeny from mtDNA
  • 4. The Current Status of the Molecular Phylogeny of Demospongiae4.1. Introduction to Demospongiae; 4.2. Taxonomic overview; 4.3. Molecular phylogenetics; 4.3.1. Keratosa; 4.3.1.1. Dendroceratida; 4.3.1.2. Dictyoceratida; 4.3.2. Myxospongiae (Verongimorpha); 4.3.2.1. Chondrosida; 4.3.2.2. Halisarcida; 4.3.2.3. Verongida; 4.3.3. Marine Haplosclerida; 4.3.4. The ``G4� � clade; 4.3.4.1. Spongillina (freshwater sponges); 4.3.4.2. Tetractinellida; 4.3.4.2.1. Astrophorida; 4.3.4.2.2. Spirophorida; 4.3.4.3. Agelasids+axinellids+raspailids+dictyonellids+heteroxyids; 4.3.4.4. Halichondridae+Suberitidae
  • 4.3.4.5. Polymastiidae4.3.4.6. Clionaidae+Spirastrellidae; 4.3.4.7. Tethyidae+hemiasterellids; 4.3.4.8. Poecilosclerida sensu stricto (primary chelae-bearing poecilosclerids); 4.4. Future work; 5. The Current Status of the Molecular Phylogeny of Hexactinellida; 5.1. Introduction to Hexactinellida; 5.2. Taxonomic overview; 5.3. Molecular phylogenetics; 5.3.1. Current status; 5.4. Future work; 6. The Current Status of the Molecular Phylogeny of Homoscleromorpha; 6.1. Introduction to Homoscleromorpha; 6.2. Taxonomic overview; 6.3. Molecular phylogenetics; 6.4. Future work
  • 7. The Current Status of the Molecular Phylogeny of Calcarea7.1. Introduction to Calcarea; 7.2. Taxonomic overview; 7.3. Molecular phylogenetics; 7.3.1. Current status; 7.3.1.1. Calcinea; 7.3.1.2. Calcaronea; 7.4. Future work; 8. The Evolution of Sponge Development; 8.1. Differences in the mode of reproduction and spermatozoon ultrastructure are not synapomorphies of higher-level sponge cl; 8.2. Diversity in sponge larval types: The parenchymella larva may be ancestral to Demospongiae; 8.3. Sponge gastrulation as the morphogenetic movements during embryogenesis
  • 8.4. Molecular evidence for homology between sponge and eumetazoan development8.5. Ancestral sponge development; 9. Conclusions and Outlook; References; Chapter 2: Sponge Systematics Facing New Challenges; 1. Introduction; 2. Why This Increasing Number of Works on Sponge Taxonomy?; 2.1. Development of new tools to share information: The Systema Porifera and databases; 2.2. Exploration of new geographical areas, or new biotopes (seamount, reef sponge bank, bathyal and abyssal zone) with new t