Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences

Mycalina: Another Crack in the Poecilosclerida Framework

(2013) Eduardo Hajdu et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Novelties and Geographic Anomalies among Tropical Verongida

(2013) M. C. Diaz et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Nearly Complete 28S rRNA Gene Sequences Confirm New Hypotheses of Sponge Evolution

(2013) Robert W. Thacker et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Molecular Phylogenies Support Homoplasy of Multiple Morphological Characters Used in the Taxonomy of Heteroscleromorpha (Porifera: Demospongiae)

(2013) C. C. Morrow et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Phylogeny of Tetillidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Spirophorida) based on three molecular markers

(2013) Amir Szitenberg et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes

(2013) Malcolm S. Hill et al.   PLoS One

Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges

(2012) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data

(2012) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Molecular Phylogenetic Evaluation of Classification and Scenarios of Character Evolution in Calcareous Sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea)

(2012) Oliver Voigt et al.   PLoS One

Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera)

(2012) Rob W. M. Van Soest et al.   PLoS One

Semaphorin and Eph Receptor Signaling Guide a Series of Cell Movements for Ventral Enclosure in C. elegans

(2011) Richard Ikegami et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): increased taxon sampling and inclusion of the mitochondrial protein-coding gene, cytochrome oxidase subunit I

(2011) Martin Dohrmann et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Insights into the evolution of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae: Spongillina): Barcoding and phylogenetic data from Lake Tanganyika endemics indicate multiple invasions and unsettle existing taxonomy

(2011) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae)

(2011) C.C. Morrow et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiaep) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy

(2011) Paco Cárdenas et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Marine Haplosclerida (Phylum Porifera) Employing Ribosomal (28S rRNA) and Mitochondrial (cox1, nad1) Gene Sequence Data

(2011) Niamh E. Redmond et al.   PLoS One

Systematics and spicule evolution in dictyonal sponges (Hexactinellida: Sceptrulophora) with description of two new species

(2011) MARTIN DOHRMANN et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Polyphyly of the genus Axinella and of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiaep)

(2010) Eve Gazave et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular Phylogeny Restores the Supra-Generic Subdivision of Homoscleromorph Sponges (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha)

(2010) Eve Gazave et al.   PLoS One

Embryonic development of verongid demosponges supports the independent acquisition of spongin skeletons as an alternative to the siliceous skeleton of sponges

(2009) MANUEL MALDONADO   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions are not suitable for intra- or inter-specific phylogeny reconstruction in haplosclerid sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae)

(2009) Niamh E. Redmond et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): Monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae

(2009) M. Dohrmann et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the Geodiidae (Porifera,Demospongiae, Astrophorida) – combining phylogenetic and Linnaean classification

(2009) Paco Cárdenas et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Ribosomal ITS Sequences Allow Resolution of Freshwater Sponge Phylogeny with Alignments Guided by Secondary Structure Prediction

(2008) Valeria Itskovich et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

A hypercalcified sponge with soft relatives: Vaceletia is a keratose demosponge

(2008) Gert Wörheide   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Reconstructing ordinal relationships in the Demospongiae using mitochondrial genomic data

(2008) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Seventeen New Complete mtDNA Sequences Reveal Extensive Mitochondrial Genome Evolution within the Demospongiae

(2008) Xiujuan Wang et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

(2008) Martin Dohrmann et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY