Volume 62: Advances in Sponge Science: Physiology, Chemical and Microbial Diversity, Biotechnology, 1st Edition

Key Features

This volume will become a reference to marine biologists with interest in

• benthic ecology and biotic interactions, including symbiosis
• chemical and molecular ecology
• systematics, phylogeny, and evolution
• sponge culture and tissue engineering

Advances in Sponge Science: Physiology, Chemical and Microbial Diversity, Biotechnology, 1st Edition

1- The physiology and molecular biology of sponge tissues

Sally P. Leys and April Hill

2- Sponge-microbe symbioses: recent advances and new directions

Robert W. Thacker and Christopher J. Freeman

3- Nutrient fluxes through sponges: biology, budgets, and ecological implications

Manuel Maldonado, Marta Ribes and Fleur C. van Duyl

4- Sponge chemical diversity: from biosynthetic pathways to ecological roles

Grégory Genta-Jouve and Olivier P. Thomas

5- Biosilica: molecular biology, biochemistry and function in demosponges as well

as its applied aspects for tissue engineering

Xiaohong Wang, Heinz C. Schröder, Matthias Wiens, Ute Schloßmacher and Werner

E.G. Müller

6- Cultivation of sponges, sponge cells and symbionts: achievements and future prospects

Klaske J. Schippers, Detmer Sipkema, Ronald Osinga, Hauke Smidt, Shirley A.

Pomponi, Dirk E. Martens and René H. Wijffels