Project description:In order to compare sponge and eumetazoan (higher animal) body plans, we identified and studied expression of a broad range of eumetazoan developmental regulatory genes in Sycon ciliatum (Calcispongiae). In this species, embryonic development is semi-synchronous within a population, synchronous within individuals, and oocytes and embryos occupy a significant fraction of the volume of the sponges during the reproductive period. RNASeq libraries representing non-reproductive (somatic) tissue slices along the body axis, as well as oocytes, embryos and free swimming larvae were generated from material obtained by sampling throughout the life cycle.

2014-05-01 | E-MTAB-2431 | biostudies-arrayexpress

sponge metagenome

Project description:Community structure of microbes retrieved electrically from cryopreserved sponges

| PRJDB3347 | ENA

sponge metagenome

Project description:Microbial diversity associated with South African marine Latrunculid sponges

| PRJNA315362 | ENA

sponge body plan

2014-05-01 | E-MTAB-2430 | biostudies-arrayexpress

sponge metagenome

Project description:Bacterial microbiome associated with Antarctic marine sponges. Amplicon raw sequences reads.

| PRJNA611843 | ENA