The HMA-LMA Dichotomy Revisited: an Electron Microscopical Survey of 56 Sponge Species

Gloeckner, Volker; Wehrl, Markus; Moitinho-Silva, Lucas; Gernert, Christine; Schupp, Peter; Pawlik, Joseph R.; Lindquist, Niels L.; Erpenbeck, Dirk; Woerheide, Gert; Hentschel, Ute

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Gloeckner, Volker
Wehrl, Markus
Moitinho-Silva, Lucas
Gernert, Christine
Schupp, Peter
Pawlik, Joseph R.
Lindquist, Niels L.
Erpenbeck, Dirk
Woerheide, Gert
Hentschel, Ute

Date

2014

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Gloeckner, V., Wehrl, M., Moitinho-Silva, L., Gernert, C., Schupp, P., Pawlik, J. R., … Hentschel, U. (2014). The HMA-LMA Dichotomy Revisited: an Electron Microscopical Survey of 56 Sponge Species. The Biological Bulletin, 227(1), 78–88. doi:10.1086/bblv227n1p78

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We gratefully acknowledge the marine operations personnel at the National Undersea Research Center (Key Largo, Florida), the Ruder Boskovic Institute (Rovinj, Croatia), the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR, Crete, Greece), and the Coastal and Marine Resources Core Lab at KAUST (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), in particular T. Ravasi and M. Berumen, for expert help during sponge collection. The crews of the R/V Seward Johnson II and F. G. Walton Smith (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute) are acknowledged for excellent support during field work. Financial support was provided by the DFG, SFB567-TPC3 to U.H. LM-S was supported by a grant from the German Excellence Initiative to the Graduate School of Life Sciences, University of Wuerzburg.