Flashing light in sponges through their siliceous fiber network: A new strategy of “neuronal transmission” in animals

A cryptochrome-based photosensory system in the siliceous sponge Suberites domuncula (Demospongiae)

(2010) Werner E. G. Müller et al.   FEBS Journal

Flashing light signaling circuit in sponges: Endogenous light generation after tissue ablation in Suberites domuncula

(2010) Matthias Wiens et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Sponge spicules as blueprints for the biofabrication of inorganic–organic composites and biomaterials

(2009) Werner E. G. Müller et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Luciferase a light source for the silica-based optical waveguides (spicules) in the demosponge Suberites domuncula

(2009) W. E. G. Müller et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Bio-sintering processes in hexactinellid sponges: Fusion of bio-silica in giant basal spicules from Monorhaphis chuni☆

(2009) Werner E.G. Müller et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Sponges (Porifera) as living metazoan witnesses from the Neoproterozoic: biomineralization and the concept of their evolutionary success

(2009) Xiaohong Wang et al.   TERRA NOVA

Diversity and Evolution of Coral Fluorescent Proteins

(2008) Naila O. Alieva et al.   PLoS One