Discovery of chitin in skeletons of non-verongiid Red Sea demosponges.

Discovery of chitin in skeletons of non-verongiid Red Sea demosponges.

Marine demosponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) are recognized as first metazoans which have developed over millions of years of evolution effective survival strategies based on unique metabolic pathways to produce both biologically active secondary metabolites and biopolymer-based stiff skeletons with...

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Main Authors: Hermann Ehrlich, Lamiaa A Shaala, Diaa T A Youssef, Sonia Żółtowska-Aksamitowska, Mikhail Tsurkan, Roberta Galli, Heike Meissner, Marcin Wysokowski, Iaroslav Petrenko, Konstantin R Tabachnick, Viatcheslav N Ivanenko, Nicole Bechmann, Yvonne Joseph, Teofil Jesionowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5953452?pdf=render

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