Sponge Sciences : Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

By: Yoko Watanabe (Editor), Nobuhiro Fusetani (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 1997

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The sponge has attracted attention as one of the first animals to evolve multicellular organization. The sponge also interests scientists because it provides excellent research material in molecular phylogeny, allowing the process of animal diversification to be probed at the molecular level. Additionally, researchers have discovered in sponges certain bioactive substances with unique antibacterial and anticancer properties of great interest in medical and pharmaceutical science. Sponge Sciences presents the most up-to-date information on all areas of sponge research, with emphasis on taxonomy, molecular evolution, developmental biology, and natural products chemistry, as well as the biology of freshwater sponges. It also provides new findings in the morphology, cell biology, physiology, ecology, and biogeography of sponges. The papers compiled here are contributed by world-renowned sponge scientists.

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Preface
Straight-Chain Acetylenes as Chemotaxonomic Markers of the Marine Haplosclerida	p. 3
Relationships Within and Between the Orders of Demospongiae that Lack a Mineral Skeleton	p. 31
Unreliability of Demosponge Skeletal Characters: The Example of Halichondria panicea	p. 41
Spicule Form and Morphogenesis in the Calcareous Sponge Leuconia fistulosa (Johnston)	p. 55
Biogeographic Scenarios of Marine Demospongiae	p. 69
A Biogeographic and Evolutionary Survey of the Genus Tethya (Porifera, Demospongiae)	p. 83
Toward a Panbiogeography of the Seas: Sponge Phylogenies and General Tracks	p. 95
A Two-Sponge Associations from Komun Island, Korea	p. 109
Sponges as Biomarkers of the Aquatic Environment: Application of Molecular Probes	p. 121
Molecular Biological and Paleontological Evidence that Eumetazoa, Including Porifera (Sponges), are of Monophyletic Origin	p. 133
Molecular Evidence for Early Evolution of Metazoa	p. 157
Larval Flagellated Cells Transform to Choanocytes in Demosponge Metamorphosis	p. 167
The Ultrastructure of Spermatozoa and Its Structural Change in the Choanocytes of Sycon calcaravis Hozawa	p. 179
The Involvement of Two Carrier Cells in Fertilization and the Ultrastructure of the Spermiocyst in Sycon calcaravis	p. 193
Exogenous Cyclic AMP (cAMP) and Dibutyryl-Cyclic AMP (DB-cAMP) Induce in vitro Morphological Variations in the Choanocytes of Clathrina cerebrum (Porifera, Calcarea)	p. 203
Fusion and Cytoplasmic Streaming are Characteristics of at Least Two Hexactinellids: Examination of Cultured Tissue from Aphrocallistes vastus	p. 215
Factors Influencing Tissue Reconstitution by Dissociated Sponge Cells	p. 227
Three-Dimensional Architecture of the Canal System of Some Hadromerids (Porifera, Demospongiae)	p. 235
An Ultrastructural Study of the Contractile Filament in the Pinacocyte of a Freshwater Sponge	p. 249
Crustacean Infauna of the Demosponge Halichondria okadai (Kadota) with Reference to the Life Cycle of Gnathia sp. (Isopoda: Gnathiidea)	p. 259
Taxonomy and Distribution of Brazilian Spongillites	p. 271
Status of Freshwater Sponge Study in China	p. 279
A Study of the Freshwater Sponges of the Lakes in Yunnan	p. 285
A Scanning Electron Microscopy Study on Spicules, Gemmule Coats, and Micropyles of Japanese Freshwater Sponges	p. 295
Radiosensitivity of Freshwater Sponge Gemmules	p. 311
Endogenous Circanual Rhythm, Like a Biological Clock, Controls Gemmule Germination in Spongilla alba	p. 321
Feasibility Studies of the Space Experiment on the Development of the Freshwater Sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis	p. 335
Freshwater Sponge Culture in the Aquarium	p. 343
The Whys and Whats of Sponge Chemistry: Why Chemists Extract Sponges and What Problems Does This Cause?	p. 353
Manzamine-Related Alkaloids from Okinawan Marine Sponges	p. 365
Likely Microbial Participation in the Production of Bioactive Marine Sponge Chemical Constituents	p. 379
Andrimid, an Antimicrobial Substance in the Marine Sponge Hyatella, Produced by an Associated Vibrio Bacterium	p. 391
Antifouling and Metamorphosis-Promoting Compounds from the Marine Sponges Pseudoceratina purpurea and Agelas mauritiana	p. 399
Antifouling Compounds against Barnacle (Balanus amphitrite) Larvae from the Marine Sponge Acanthella cavernosa	p. 413
The Sponge in the History of Japanese Biology	p. 427
List of Participants	p. 445
Contributor Index	p. 451
Subject Index	p. 453
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