Sentence examples for poriferan from inspiring English sources

In order to evaluate the biomedical potential of three-dimensional chitinous scaffolds of poriferan origin, chondrocyte culturing experiments were performed.

In the present work, a technological route to produce "ready-to-use" tissue-engineered products based on poriferan chitin is comprehensively investigated for the first time.

A research team now claims that the tiny fossil pictured above, discovered in southern China and dated to 600 million years ago clearly during the Precambrian is the oldest known poriferan.

So far scientific publications have identified about 9,000 poriferan species, of which: about 400 are glass sponges; about 500 are calcareous species; and the rest are demosponges.

And so in his semifacetious remark Shulgin sparked what has now been well over a decade of speculation on the possibility of poriferan psychedelics.

The poriferan origin of the sequences was checked by a BLAST search [39] against the NCBI Genbank collection (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).nih.gov/

While multiple opsins were found in the cnidarian genomes, our screens for opsins in trace data from the poriferan Amphimedon queenslandica did not produce any putative opsins.

We found DIA1 to be conserved from cnidarians to humans, but we found no evidence for DIA1 in the currently available poriferan sequence databases.

The main distinction among the post-synaptic gene set in the poriferan and cnidarian species are genes that encode excitatory post-synaptic receptors.

The basis of poriferan morphological systematics and species identification is based on the skeletal elements, their size, shape, arrangement and combination.

We checked the poriferan origin of the sequences by BLAST searches against the Genbank database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/) and their relationship to other taxa in a phylogenetic tree as described in Erpenbeck et al. [22].