Spicule structure and affinities of the Late Ordovician hexactinellid-like spongeCyathophycus loydellifrom the Llanfawr Mudstones Lagerstätte, Wales

Isolated sponge spicules from the late Cambrian Alum Shale Formation (‘Orsten’ nodules) of Sweden

(2012) C. Castellani et al.   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

Evidence for spicule homology in calcareous and siliceous sponges: biminerallic spicules inLenicasp. from the Early Cambrian of South China

(2012) JOSEPH P. BOTTING et al.   LETHAIA

Calcite Reinforced Silica-Silica Joints in the Biocomposite Skeleton of Deep-Sea Glass Sponges

(2011) Hermann Ehrlich et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Welsh gold: A new exceptionally preserved pyritized Ordovician biota

(2011) Joseph P. Botting et al.   GEOLOGY

No longer Demospongiae: Homoscleromorpha formal nomination as a fourth class of Porifera

(2011) Eve Gazave et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Carbonaceous preservation of Cambrian hexactinellid sponge spicules

(2010) T. H. P. Harvey   Biology Letters

Insights into Chemistry of Biological Materials: Newly Discovered Silica-Aragonite-Chitin Biocomposites in Demosponges

(2010) Hermann Ehrlich et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Occurrence of a Silicatein Gene in Glass Sponges (Hexactinellida: Porifera)

(2010) Galina N. Veremeichik et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Double fossilization in eukaryotic microorganisms from Lower Cretaceous amber

(2009) Ana Martín-González et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sponges (Porifera) and eukaryotic, unicellular plankton

(2009) Martin Pfannkuchen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Silicatein Genes in Spicule-Forming and Nonspicule-forming Pacific Demosponges

(2009) Valeri B. Kozhemyako et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

Silicatein expression in the hexactinellid Crateromorpha meyeri: the lead marker gene restricted to siliceous sponges

(2008) Werner E. G. Müller et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Identification of a silicatein(-related) protease in the giant spicules of the deep-sea hexactinellid Monorhaphis chuni

(2008) W. E. G. Muller et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Axial growth of hexactinellid spicules: Formation of cone-like structural units in the giant basal spicules of the hexactinellid Monorhaphis

(2008) Xiaohong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Unravelling causal components of the Ordovician Radiation: the Builth Inlier (central Wales) as a case study

(2008) JOSEPH P. BOTTING et al.   LETHAIA

Biofabrication of biosilica-glass by living organisms

(2008) Heinz C. Schröder et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

(2008) Martin Dohrmann et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Structure and composition of calcareous sponge spicules: A review and comparison to structurally related biominerals

(2007) Ingo Sethmann et al.   MICRON