Sponge budding is a spatiotemporal morphological patterning process: Insights from synchrotron radiation-based x-ray microtomography into the asexual reproduction of <it>Tethya wilhelma</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Primary agametic-asexual reproduction mechanisms such as budding and fission are present in all non-bilaterian and many bilaterian animal taxa and are likely to be metazoan ground pattern characters. Cnidarians display highly organiz...

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Main Authors: Nickel Michael, Beckmann Felix, Herzen Julia, Hammel Jörg U
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Zoology
Online Access:http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/6/1/19