Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential

Cell-Cell Adhesion in the Cnidaria: Insights Into the Evolution of Tissue Morphogenesis

(2010) Craig R. Magie et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Origin of animal epithelia: insights from the sponge genome

(2010) Bryony Fahey et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary emergence of synaptic nervous systems: what can we learn from the non-synaptic, nerveless Porifera?

(2010) Michael Nickel   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Evidence for glutamate, GABA and NO in coordinating behaviour in the sponge, Ephydatia muelleri (Demospongiae, Spongillidae)

(2010) G. R. D. Elliott et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Claudin-2–deficient mice are defective in the leaky and cation-selective paracellular permeability properties of renal proximal tubules

(2010) Shigeaki Muto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The junctions that don’t fit the scheme: special symmetrical cell-cell junctions of their own kind

(2009) Werner W. Franke et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Epithelia and integration in sponges

(2009) S. P. Leys et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

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

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE